Sentences with phrase «more precipitation»

In addition, warmer temperatures means more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, elevating the risk of flooding.

As the amount of water in the air increases, this causes more precipitation from all storms and increases flooding risk.

With some exceptions, the tropics will likely receive less rain (orange) as the planet warms, while the polar regions will receive more precipitation (green).

The world is becoming warmer, with more precipitation and weather extremes.

It is not clear whether warming implies more snow (because of more precipitation) or less snow (because storms will more often produce rain).

Increased warmth means more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow and causes what snow there is to melt earlier.

You tend to see more flooding events, because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, so when it does rain or snow, you actually get more precipitation.

It might produce some 15 percent more precipitation during a storm, he estimates.

One version gave more precipitation at night and fewer clouds during the day, promoting higher surface temperatures.

Because a warmer climate will contain much more water, once it starts raining, a there simply is much more water and therefore more precipitation in a single event, leading to flooding.

The alternative alternative version created more precipitation during the day, consistent with diminished absorption of solar radiation at the surface and consequently lower surface temperatures.

We had much more precipitation to date in the 2005 - 2006 season.

More precipitation now falls as rain rather than snow in northern regions.

This suggests more precipitation fell away from the tropics in a colder climate, the opposite of what is expected as the world warms.

A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, which means that when storms pass through, they drop more precipitation.

Today, scientists are finding that not only is more precipitation across the region arriving as rain, but also less snow overall is falling.

Generally, higher latitudes are projected to receive more precipitation.

Overlay all of that on a trend of a changing climate, and the data are pretty clear that in the Sierra Nevada, over time, we're going to see more precipitation fall as rain and less as snow.

Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri, has experienced two catastrophic floods in the past 20 years.4 In coming decades, scientists expect more precipitation in winter and spring, when the risk of flooding is already high.4

Further, let's agree that this will on average cause more precipitation due to increased evaporation at these higher temperatures (the best data I have seen say that the precipitation trend over the continental US — where we have the best long term records — is up 5 - 10 % over the last century).

The San Joaquin River originates in the high Sierra, which is seeing more precipitation come down as rain instead of snow in the winter months.

Warmer air holds more moisture, feeding more precipitation from all storms including hurricanes, significantly amplifying extreme rainfall and increasing the risk of flooding.

The basin could experience more precipitation with climate change, or bigger swings between wet and dry years or possibly even longer, more severe «megadroughts.»

19 Cold: Subarctic The subarctic subclimate has a dry winter season — it receives 10 times more precipitation in the summer than in winter.

In western Tibet, annual snowfall totals have risen steadily since the 1990s, especially at higher elevations, as strengthening westerly winds bring more precipitation.

The Pacific states — California, Oregon and Washington — receive more precipitation because of the Pacific Ocean influence, and more of the snow falls at temperatures near freezing.

And California had a near average wet season, which sounds good except for the fact that the state needed a lot more precipitation than it got to kick its four - year drought to the curb.

«While more precipitation may fall in a year, it arrives as rain rather than snow because temperatures are rising.

In regions like West Africa, the measurement method might contribute to obtaining more precipitation information to improve the prognosis models urgently required for water resources management.

«Even in this current warming climate, some mountains are so high that the temperatures are still below freezing, and the warming ocean may provide more precipitation to drive some of the glaciers to advance,» Batbaatar said.

though it takes a certain amount of water to grow crops, a large proportion of this water transpires and goes toward more precipitation and thus the measurement of virtual water is suspect.

Also, the link between more precipitation and El Niño really only holds for Southern California, while it is the northern half of the state where the main reservoirs, supplied by mountain snowpack, are situated.

If you were in a situation where there was initially more precipitation than radiative cooling could handle, then the atmosphere could just warm up until the radiative cooling increased — though then you'd have to worry about how much the warming affects precipitation, etc..

«One of the major modes of climate variability is El Niño and when we're in El Niño there's a large area of warm sea surface temps in the Pacific,» this leads to more precipitation on the West Coast, Crouch said.