Sentences with phrase «making precipitation events»
All three methods agreed that the effect of climate change was positive, making precipitation events like this about 40 % more likely, with a provisional 2.5 - 97.5 % confidence interval of 5 - 80 %.
https://www.climateprediction.net/ Not exact matches
«To simply tell a water resource manager that, «Oh, yeah, climate change is making heavy precipitation events more likely,» is not particularly helpful information,» she said.
Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.
Such an elevated temperature would amplify temperature and precipitation extremes enough to make the weather events of recent years look tame in comparison.
I suspect detection of TC events by oxygen - 18 ratios is complicated by the fact that oxygen - 18 ratios are also affected by summer to winter precipitation ratios, although the very different timescales make it possible to disentangle such issues.
Another study, published in Geophysical Research Letters in late December of last year, found that California's precipitation deficits alone do not make this drought a historic event.
Put simply, the distinction between precipitation and floods is not a hard one to make, nor is the distinction between flood events and associated losses.
A December 2017 study found that global warming made the precipitation seen over Houston and the surrounding area on August 26 — 28 about 15 percent (8 to 19 percent) more intense, or equivalently made such an event three (1.5 — 5) times more likely.
Would the electric effects make much of a difference to cloud formation / distribution and the triggering of precipitation events I wonder?
A December 2017 study found that global warming made the precipitation seen over Houston and the surrounding area on August 26 — 28 about 15 % (8 % — 19 %) more intense, or equivalently made such an event three (1.5 — 5) times more likely.
Elsewhere, more frequent extreme precipitation events make flooding the perennial risk.