Sentences with phrase «means less rainfall»

The weaker temperature gradient would have meant less rainfall and more evaporation in the midlatitude North Pacific.

Not exact matches

As the logic — and science — goes, a cooler, geoengineered planet means less evaporation, and thus less rainfall.

Less rainfall to the area will mean reduced runoff into water basins that feed irrigated fields.

Climate models agreed even less on how the conflicting daily changes affect annual mean rainfall.

Increased rainfall could mean more vegetation and therefore less soil exposed to wind erosion in the Sahel.

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

The bureau has also been practicing a less well - honed strategy that involves overseeding the clouds to actually prevent rainfall; this technique increases the number of ice crystals in a cloud but decreases their mean size, which makes them less likely to fall as rain.

Warmer temperatures mean hotter days in the field and less predictable rainfall, which throws off the entire farming process and leaves producers without a crop to sell.

My own analysis for my neck - of - the - woods (slightly less definite due to the data from the local weather station having stalled in May 2013 — probably due to spending cuts)-- February saw record rainfall, 38 % above the previous 55 - year February maximum and 3.35 sd above the February mean.

Part way there, but no quantitation yet: of the 3.77 W / m ^ 2 radiated back dowwnard, most goes to increased rate of evaporation of the water at the surface, and much less goes to increased mean temp increase at the surface; hence increased rate of non-radiative transfer of heat from surface to upper atmosphere, slight increase in rainfall as hydrological cycle is faster, and slight increase in cloud cover.

That means that you have a 50 % chance of less than median rainfall.

We find that the moisture - related parameters, rainfall and the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), and to a lesser extent, maximum and mean temperatures, can be reconstructed.

Those effects include more rainfall that occurs in heavy downpours, meaning less is absorbed into the earth and more becomes runoff; more rain and less snowfall in the mountains, which means less melting snow to feed rivers in the spring and summer; and higher temperatures causing more evaporation.