Sentences with phrase «more atmospheric river»

The resultant severe erosion and potential breach of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway's was then compounded by more atmospheric rivers (Watts 2017a).

Not exact matches

A cloud over a mountain may look stationary, but it more closely resembles a standing wave in a river — an atmospheric river.

According to the study, winter flooding in the UK is set to get more severe and more frequent under the influence of climate change as a result of a change in the characteristics of atmospheric rivers (ARs).

Mass has done work that suggests atmospheric rivers, at least along the West Coast, should become more intense in the future with warming, but that the effect today is still small.

When atmospheric rivers hit land, they bring more than a third of the rainfall that the western states typically receive in the course of an entire year.

In a warmer climate, the atmosphere can hold even more moisture, so it is not surprising that the number of atmospheric river days will increase in the future.

This study found that associated with a poleward shift of the subtropical jet in the North Pacific basin, the number of atmospheric river days increases much more significantly in Alaska during spring because both increased moisture and increased wind speed gang up to increase the frequency of atmospheric rivers.

The figurative work becomes more wistful and supposedly lyrical as the forties progress, culminating in the «Hammersmith» paintings of semi-abstracted atmospheric river and outdoor scenes, such as The Gardens of Hammersmith No. 2, made at about the same time as his first forays into abstract painting and collage.

A Wet Year Wont Beat California's Never - Ending Drought01.22.2017 — Storm after storm has pummeled California over the past few weeks as a series of so - called atmospheric rivers has come ashore... Read More.

«All climate models show that as the climate warms, we should expect more frequent atmospheric river storms, which isn't good in California because it's almost like too much rain at one time,» she said.

«You have more evaporation, more energy, more heat and that's driving more moisture from the tropics which is where these atmospheric rivers originate,» Lynn Ingram, a professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, told IBT.

Climate change is expected to make California more dependent on extreme «atmospheric river» storm events, scientists say.

What is pretty clear, though, is that this year's extreme wetness on the seasonal scale has pushed parts of California's aging water infrastructure to the brink — and had even a single additional warm, wet atmospheric river come ashore during the peak of winter, the overall flood situation might have been considerably more serious.

Climate models project that the intensity and duration of atmospheric rivers increase in the Golden State in a warming climate, with the most intense atmospheric river storms becoming more frequent.

On January 3 and 4, the first of two back - to - back atmospheric river storms (wide paths of moisture in the atmosphere composed of condensed water vapor), brought heavy rain and mountain snow to central California, ahead of an even more intense round of heavy precipitation brought by a powerful, long - duration atmospheric river storm pulling warm and moist air to California from the subtropical and equatorial region southeast of Hawaii.

Climate Change Could Alter Them A recent study led by Christine Shields of the National Center for Atmospheric Research suggests that climate change could push atmospheric rivers in the Pacific toward the equator and bring more intense rains to southern California.

Storms are hammering the West Coast and the South, with more rain to come in both regions due to the same phenomena: atmospheric rivers.

-- It seems perfectly reasonable to me that if we imagine the surface never emits that energy in the first place, - energy that is stored in the surface and just below, i.e. oceans, lakes, rivers, ground, and air, — just to mention a few, then any surface temperature change would be completely reliant on variations in Solar irradiation and advection mainly by Water Vapor (WV) but also by other GHGs that have the ability to contain more heat than the rest of the atmospheric gases.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me that if we imagine the surface never emits that energy in the first place, - energy that is stored in the surface and just below, i.e. oceans, lakes, rivers, ground, and air, — just to mention a few, then any surface temperature change would be completely reliant on variations in Solar irradiation and advection mainly by Water Vapor (WV) but also by other GHGs that have the ability to contain more heat than the rest of the atmospheric gases.