Sentences with phrase «linking precipitation changes»

Tom Karl, the head of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, also cautioned that the science of linking precipitation changes to climate change is complex.

Not exact matches

Although the study does not directly identify a link between this type of variation and current climate change vulnerability, these precipitation - linked variables could be a source of vulnerability in the future, Bay and her colleagues noted.

Hantavirus, the pulmonary disease spread by rodents, for example, has been linked to changes in precipitation.

Rising CO2 levels have been linked to the globe's average temperature rise as well as a host of other changes to the climate system including sea level rise, shifts in precipitation, ocean acidification, and an increase in extreme heat.

The development of this river system may be linked to changes in temperature, precipitation, rainwater acidity, and storminess.

Changes in production are directly linked to variations in temperature and precipitation during the growing season and often to the offseason changes in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil pChanges in production are directly linked to variations in temperature and precipitation during the growing season and often to the offseason changes in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil pchanges in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil profile.

A reduction in the precipitation area implies higher mean precipitation intensity, and may be linked to changes in the atmospheric overturning presented above.

One can't say from the story whether this is definitely related to climate change in any way — I can't even tell from this link whether it is attributable to precipitation (though the timing is certainly suggestive).

When it comes to extreme weather, we always take the opportunity to point back to the last definitive international scientific report on extreme weather and climate change, which found strong historic links for heat waves, coastal flooding and changes in precipitation along with weaker links for tornadoes and hurricanes.

These findings suggest that the ability of climate models to accurately estimate future precipitation changes over California is also linked to the fidelity with which future sea - ice changes are simulated.

This can be affected by warming temperatures, but also by changes in snowfall, increases in solar radiation absorption due to a decrease in cloud cover, and increases in the water vapor content of air near the earth's surface.2, 14,15,16,17 In Cordillera Blanca, Peru, for example, one study of glacier retreat between 1930 and 1950 linked the retreat to a decline in cloud cover and precipitation.18

Also the spatial structure of changes in precipitation linked to altered surface temperature by convection can be improved by using higher resolution model experiments, although the relative gain here is generally small (Di Luca et al, 2012).

Scientists Dim Coumou and Stefan Rahmstorf publish an article in «Nature Climate Change,» finding «strong evidence» that links heat waves and precipitation extremes to human - induced warming.

Of the types of extremes that battered the country this year, only certain large - scale phenomena among them — such as heat waves, droughts and heavy precipitation — have links to climate change.

Hoerling: «We can also say with high confidence that no appreciable trend toward either wetter or drier conditions has been observed for statewide average precipitation since 1895» — «At present, the scientific evidence does not support an argument that the drought there is appreciably linked to human - induced climate change... In short, the drought gripping California has been observed before.

Ozone depletion in the late twentieth century was the primary driver of the observed poleward shift of the jet during summer, which has been linked to changes in tropospheric and surface temperatures, clouds and cloud radiative effects, and precipitation at both middle and low latitudes.

Some measures of climate extremes have changed, notably temperature and precipitation extremes, and have been linked to human forcings

These figures illustrate the way the probability distribution of future global mean temperature change under a high - emissions scenario is linked to different potential changes in temperature and precipitation at a county - level.

Regularized multiple linear regression links projected changes in monthly temperature and precipitation with projected changes in monthly streamflow over the Fraser and Peace River watersheds.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

Over the past few decades, warming temperatures have been linked to changes in the percentage of precipitation falling as rain or snow, and snow melt anomalies showing a trend towards earlier and faster stream flow.

Combining historical aerial surveys, expedition photographs, and both spy and modern satellite imagery reveals a pronounced retreat of peripheral glaciers in east and west Greenland, linked to changes in precipitation associated with the NAO.

The 1976 — 1977 climate shift in the Pacific, associated with a phase change in the PDO from negative to positive, was associated with significant changes in ENSO evolution (Trenberth and Stepaniak, 2001) and with changes in ENSO teleconnections and links to precipitation and surface temperatures over North and South America, Asia and Australia (Trenberth, 1990; Trenberth and Hurrell, 1994; Power et al., 1999a; Salinger et al., 2001; Mantua and Hare, 2002; Minobe and Nakanowatari, 2002; Trenberth et al., 2002b; Deser et al., 2004; Marengo, 2004).

Here are some examples: # 1) «A Parallel Nonnegative Tensor Factorization Algorithm for Mining Global Climate Data» http://www.springerlink.com/content/u4x12132j06r40h3/ (from LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science) # 2) «Dowinscaling of precipitation for climate change scenarios: A support vector machine approach» http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/18799/ (Journal Of Hydrology) # 3) «Semi-supervised learning with data calibration for long - term time series forecasting» http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401911 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Journal) There are tons that I can quoted, but the 3 references that I have linked to above clarifies my point.

But California droughts are also fundamentally linked to the quantities and timing of precipitation, the dynamics of storm formation in the Pacific Ocean, the impacts of climate change on the frequency and intensity of El Niño and La Niña events and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the behavior of the jet stream as conditions in the Arctic change.

Abstract Changes in total solar irradiance can be linked to changes in regional precipiChanges in total solar irradiance can be linked to changes in regional precipichanges in regional precipitation.

Lower case a-h refer to how the literature was addressed in terms of up / downscaling (a — clearly defined global impact for a specific ΔT against a specific baseline, upscaling not necessary; b — clearly defined regional impact at a specific regional ΔT where no GCM used; c — clearly defined regional impact as a result of specific GCM scenarios but study only used the regional ΔT; d — as c but impacts also the result of regional precipitation changes; e — as b but impacts also the result of regional precipitation change; f — regional temperature change is off - scale for upscaling with available GCM patterns to 2100, in which case upscaling is, where possible, approximated by using Figures 10.5 and 10.8 from Meehl et al., 2007; g — studies which estimate the range of possible outcomes in a given location or region considering a multi-model ensemble linked to a global temperature change.

Accurately modeling precipitation in a geographically and topographically complex region like California can be tricky, and none of the studies I've mentioned in this article explicitly link the extremely low 2013 - 2014 precipitation in California to climate change.

Increased drying linked with higher temperatures and decreased precipitation have contributed to changes in drought.

Other forms of severe weather are also closely linked to climate change, including a rise in extreme precipitation events in some regions and increasingly severe droughts in others.