Sentences with phrase «means less precipitation»

In northern California, that means less precipitation.

An erroneous correlation between glacial phases and pluvial phases in the tropics has been widely accepted in the past, although cold ocean water means less precipitation, not more.

Not exact matches

In that case (along with greater precipitation, and the precipitation belt moving to higher latitudes), there could be more snow in the winter & greater melting in the summer (in higher latitudes), while I'd think the lower latitudes (with less precip) and the local mean temp being higher, would melt the glaciers faster, without adequate snowfall & low winter temps to slow this glacial decrease.

As Isaac says, global mean precipitation is a less useful summary statistic than global mean temperature, if you are interested in what life will be like in a doubled CO2 world.

The net change over land accounts for 24 % of the global mean increase in precipitation, a little less than the areal proportion of land (29 %).

This means that many populated zones will receive less precipitation.

And if there's less precipitation that could mean less snow cover as well - on the short time scales of a year or two while the effect is still being felt.

Snowpack is melting earlier as winter and spring temperatures rise, and in most states an increasing percentage of winter precipitation is falling as rain, meaning there is often less snowpack to begin with.

Less humidity in the air means less local rain and less precipitation replenishing glaciers and rivLess humidity in the air means less local rain and less precipitation replenishing glaciers and rivless local rain and less precipitation replenishing glaciers and rivless precipitation replenishing glaciers and rivers.

Previous studies on the modification of precipitation trends by quantile mapping have focused on mean quantities, with less attention paid to extremes.