Sentences with phrase «more evaporation leads»

Since more evaporation leads to more precipitation, most climate researchers expected increased cirrus cloudiness to follow warming.

Does more evaporation lead to more clouds and if so is the net effect of more clouds to increase albedo or to further increase GHE?

Not exact matches

UHI effects have been documented in city environments worldwide and show that as cities become increasingly urbanised, increasing energy use, reductions in surface water (and evaporation) and increased concrete etc. tend to lead to warmer conditions than in nearby more rural areas.

That heat has helped lead to more evaporation from soils and transpiration from plants.

When droughts do occur, they will be more intense than those in the past, because higher temperatures will lead to more evaporation from soils and transpiration from plants.

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Higher temperatures lead to more evaporation from lakes, rivers and oceans, and warmer air can hold more moisture.

In addition, less ice cover can lead to more evaporation and lower water levels while warmer water contributes to more algal blooms and impaired water quality, she says.

While climate change does not cause droughts, it can make them worse, as a warmer atmosphere leads to more evaporation from soils.

Increased temperature leads to increased evaporation from the sea, and thus to higher absolute humidity (assuming fixed relative humidity), and since H2O molecules are even more effective infrared absorbers than CO 2 molecules, the warming trend is reinforced.

Rising temperatures over land lead to increased evaporation, which renders crops more susceptible to drought.

The higher temperatures associated with climate change near the surface are resulting in increased evaporation, leading to more water vapor in the stratosphere which chemically reacting with the ozone — resulting in ozone depletion.

Recent record snowfall months have coincided with unusually warm water in the lakes, lack of ice, leading to more open water for more evaporation, Feb, 2007 as an example.

(I think that an anomalously warm ocean surface heated from below would lead to more evaporation, and the additional water vapor would give a positive greenhouse effect that would partially offset the effect of a drop in greenhouse gas concentrations.)

One thing that does seem clear is that warmer oceans (a la global warming) mean more evaporation, and that likely leads to storms with more and more dangerous rainfall of the kind we saw with Hurricane Irene last year.

It seems that increased energy in the boundary layer would logically lead to more evaporation.

But now the risk of fire is exacerbated by climate change, which heats air (stoking stronger winds) and water (leading to more evaporation and hence stronger precipitation events).

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

That raises the temperature of the skin, and that leads to more evaporation and convection.

Note 1: A simple hotspot explanation summarized from this article: Increasing CO2 levels causes atmosphere to warm; then atmosphere causes Earth's surface to warm; warming of oceans cause evaporation; increased evaporation leads to more water vapor in the upper troposphere; water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere even more (positive water vapor feedback); the Earth's surface warms even more; and then auto «repeat and rinse» until Earth's oceans boil, per an «expert.»

While the years with warm and wet weather extremes have also become more common in the state, increased temperatures accompanying the precipitation tend to lead to quicker evaporation, Diffenbaugh said.

These effects are relatively well understood in the lowest level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, where increased warming leads to greater evaporation, causing more water vapour and so further warming, although this is offset to some extent through the formation of clouds that reflect incoming sunlight back into space.

Hotter waters lead to more evaporation, which must eventually come down in the form of precipitation.

As per my posts above, it is possible for DLR to increase more than evaporation, and so the warming from the DLR beats the cooling from evaporation, leading to a warming whereby the system is moving towards equilibrium by increasing temperature and hence increasing sensible heat flux and emitted longwave radiation.

Forget about CO2, if a random increase in water vapor occurs, doesn't that all by itself increase the greenhouse effect, leading to evaporation of more water, more greenhouse effect, and so on?

If we contend that seas are warming, wouldn't that lead to higher evaporation rates resulting in more cloud cover.

One of the most well - known effects of global warming is an intensification of the water cycle, with higher air temperatures leading to increased evaporation from the seas and soils, and more atmospheric water vapor contributing to more frequent heavy precipitation events.

Global warming means hotter temperatures, which lead to less snow and more evaporation.

In addition to causing more downpours, these enhanced evaporation rates are also leading to an increase in drought severity in places that are already dry, like California.