Sentences with phrase «local rainfall patterns»

On undesirability, Hulme explains that although the approach would reduce global temperatures, it would also have significant side - effects, such as changing local rainfall patterns.

By 2020, the local climate will be consistently hotter, and the local rainfall patterns could alter.

Not exact matches

Can the science reliably predict significant changes in rainfall patterns at regional or local levels for say the next 5 decades?

And forests provide development benefits beyond their role in climate mitigation such as livelihoods for indigenous and local communities and maintaining hydrological systems and rainfall patterns.

In the United States, new research from the City College of New York on the effects of particle pollution on weather patterns around Manhattan has shown that aerosols can either increase or decrease local rainfall, sometimes creating situations where one area will be deluged while a neighboring town will remain dry.

Are we experiencing a gradual shift in local climate pattern in Hyderabad with the city experiencing its heaviest rainfall in recent years?

«African rainforests already have the lowest rainfall of any rainforest ecosystem on Earth, which could make them particularly sensitive to changes in local weather patterns,» said Garcia - Carreras.

In summary, in contrast with the simulations of extreme temperature by climate models, extreme precipitation is difficult to reproduce, especially for the intensities and patterns of heavy rainfall which are heavily affected by the local scale (see Chapter 10).