«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of
local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.
Not exact matches
January 2004: «Directions for Climate Research» Here, ExxonMobil outlines areas where it deemed more research was necessary, such as «natural climate variability, ocean currents and heat transfer, the
hydrological cycle, and the ability of climate models to predict
changes on a regional and
local scale.»
but no significative
changes in the global
hydrological cycle only small und big
local precipitation's
changes
The scientists analyzed tree - ring data and other indicators of
local historical climate and found neither climate
change nor natural
hydrological cycles to be responsible for the diminishing of the lake.
When done so, proxy records and climate models indicate that the response to past global warming was profound, with evidence for global reorganisation of the
hydrological cycle and profound
local increases and decreases in rainfall; combined with elevated temperatures and terrestrial vegetation
change, this appears to often result in warming - enhanced soil organic matter oxidation, chemical weathering and nutrient cycling.