Sentences with phrase «makes rainfall patterns»

But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall patterns less predictable, these gains are under threat.

Not exact matches

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

Maize and wheat production in Ethiopia depends on rainfall, making the unpredictable weather patterns caused by climate change exceptionally detrimental here.

Crucially, the project is also tackling the effects of climate change that are already making themselves known — for example exploring solar dryers as an alternative to the traditional coffee drying techniques which have been affected by changing rainfall patterns.

Around the Bean Belt, rising minimum growing temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, and rising pest and disease incidence, are already making life harder for coffee farmers.»

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Comparisons between the two cores showed that the cooler climate of the last glaciation, some 20,000 years ago, made a significant difference to east Africa's rainfall patterns.

A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn affect regional rainfall patterns including the Indian monsoon.

This approach has already been comprehensively dismissed by other studies, which have demonstrated that such an approach could change rainfall patterns or make conditions worse in arid zones such as the Sahel or just make things worse once the technology ceased.

Jeff Knight said: «Our analysis shows that climate change likely did make a contribution to the record rainfall in 2013 - 14 through a long - term increase in UK winter rainfall that is not associated with changing weather patterns.

Rigorous scientific analysis has found that the extreme rainfall that caused a Texas flooding in May of 2015, for example, was caused by a fairly typical rainfall pattern associated with that year's El Niño, a naturally occurring climate cycle, which had been supercharged by human - made climate change.

The Philippines, a low - lying country of over 100 million people, faces threats from more intense typhoons, dramatic changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise, and increasing temperatures as a result of man - made climate change, experts said.

7 May, 2017 — The warming climate is upsetting rainfall patterns and the frequency of flooding in West Africa as it makes the region's Sahel storms three times likelier.

Moreover, unless something is done, the current suffering offers a grim foretaste of the future — temperatures in East Africa are going to rise and rainfall patterns will change, making a bad situation worse.

«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.