Sentences with phrase «low precipitation totals»
Since 1999, abnormally low precipitation totals and hot and dry conditions have brought reservoir water levels close to record lows.
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Maps of median TAE averaged across 23 model simulations for (a) and (b) mean surface air temperature, (c) and (d) highest daily maximum temperature, (e) and (f) lowest daily minimum temperature, (g) and (h) total precipitation, and (i), (j) maximum 1 - d precipitation for (a), (c), (e), (g) and (i) June - August and (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) December - February.
In that case, a similar slow - moving low pressure system brought moisture from the Gulf of Mexico against the front ranges of the northern Rocky Mountains leading to record breaking precipitation totals and flooding.
Correlation (color) and regression maps (contour) of SST (left) and SLP (right) associated with the first EOF modes of annual precipitation (a, b), low - frequency precipitation (c, d), and total water storage (e, f), which are calculated using annual mean data for the first EOF mode of annual precipitation, 10 - year running mean for precipitation, and 10 - year running mean leading with 5 - year for total water storage.
Correlation coefficients are calculated using annual mean data for the first EOF mode of annual precipitation, 10 - year running mean data for the low - frequency precipitation, and 10 - year running mean data leading with 5 - year for the total water storage.
This finding is consistent with the idea that soils provide a natural low - pass filter (integrator) for precipitation variability, yielding the low frequency signals in total water storage.
Note that this is only part of the story since, as far as we are aware, no one has yet investigated a counterintuitive parallel effect — condensation and precipitation will likely reduce the total lower atmospheric concentration of that ubiquitous greenhouse gas, water vapor, so increasing clear sky radiative cooling.
In fact, the lower climate sensitivity is, the faster must total precipitation increase with GMST, or the atmosphere would heat up too much.