Not exact matches
«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.
There were no significant trends in
mean annual total
precipitation or total
precipitation affected area but we did observe a significant increase in
mean annual rain - free days, where the
mean number of dry days increased by 1.31 days
per decade and the global area affected by anomalously dry years significantly increased by 1.6 %
per decade.
In Table I Ling exp is linguistic expression, Quant» is quantification, Not»n is notation, % is percentage, MT is
mean temperature, °C is degrees Celsius, MP is
mean precipitation, kg m2 is kilogram
per square metre, MGFF is
mean ground frost frequency, Alt is altitude, m is metre.
The
mean precipitation total is 5.3 mm, spread over an average of 2.5 wet days
per month.
Pre-TAR AOGCM results held at the DDC were included in a model intercomparison across the four SRES emissions scenarios (B1, B2, A2, and A1FI) of seasonal
mean temperature and
precipitation change for thirty - two world regions (Ruosteenoja et al., 2003).9 The inter-model range of changes by the end of the 21st century is summarised in Figure 2.6 for the A2 scenario, expressed as rates of change
per century.