Sentences with phrase «much changes in precipitation»

Not exact matches

«Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation result in pressure on yields from important crops in much of the world,» says IFPRI agricultural economist Gerald Nelson, an author of the report, «Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Impacts and Costs of Adaptation to 2050».

Long - term changes in temperature and precipitation are making some rivers flood days, weeks or even months earlier than they did 50 years ago, and pushing flooding in other areas much later, researchers report August 11 in Science.

ADVANCES: Meteorologists can now detect precipitation changes at a smaller scale, making it much easier to forecast flash floods, says Jonathan Gourley, a research hydrologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla..

Wrestling with natural variability Scientists have looked for these changes in rainfall patterns, but they are often difficult to distinguish because there is so much natural variability in precipitation.

And the question overtopping all: Will increased precipitation, a consequence of climate change already being seen in much of the United States, exacerbate spring flooding?

Wiper blades are cheap, easy to change, and often overlooked, especially if you live in an area that doesn't get much precipitation during the summer months.

And while that might make sense for the current situation, it is much harder to understand for forecasts one week out (where the chance of precipitation might change from 80 % to 40 % to 20 % to 60 % in a one - hour span for a period six days in the future).

Note that the «change in precipitation» Climate Wizard map is much more important than the temperature change.

I have noticed a few things, winter is greatly milder in most parts of the Arctic, dominant winds have equally changed there, rain or precipitation patterns seem out of whack pretty much everywhere else on Earth as well.

Regionally, the changes in precipitation would grow dramatically, as the subttropical jet would transport moist tropical air into the mountains; but, the strengthening of the Hadley Cell would prevent much of that moisture from forming large thunderstorm complexes outside of the higher elevations.

In weather systems, convergence of increased water vapor leads to more intense precipitation and the risk of heavy rain and snow events, but may also lead to reductions in duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change mucIn weather systems, convergence of increased water vapor leads to more intense precipitation and the risk of heavy rain and snow events, but may also lead to reductions in duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change mucin duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change much.

And that a small variation in temperature can signal much greater changes in other conditions, such as precipitation and storms and river flow.

The way that our precipitation will change in the future is pretty much dictated by what happens to those large storms.»

Precipitation has much larger spatial and temporal variability than temperature, and it is therefore more difficult to identify the impact it has on changes in many systems.

Previous climate models have shown that there didn't appear to be much change in annual average precipitation in California or changes were unknown, even under aggressive warming scenarios.

In addition, climate change is very likely to lead to more frequent extreme heat events and daily precipitation extremes over most areas of North America, more frequent low snow years, and shifts towards earlier snowmelt runoff over much of the western US and Canada (high confidence).

Changes in precipitation become more important at in colder locations and higher elevations where they determine whether any or how much precipitation falls.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

To be useful in a risk context, climate change assessments therefore need a much more thorough exploration of the tails of the distributions of physical variables such as sea level rise, temperature, and precipitation, where our scientific knowledge base is less complete, and where sophisticated climate models are less helpful.

Alex would probably say that you need to change «never ice» to «more precipitation and more snow» in your comment JimD and you would be much closer to understanding.

Even worse, climate models seemingly underestimate how much precipitation has changed already — further reducing confidence in their ability to project future changes.

But, interest in precipitation, jet stream, hurricane pattern changes encompass much more than just temperature.

The increasingly extreme behavior of precipitation in California — which could very well occur without much of a change in California's overall average precipitation — may increase the risk of both drought and flood events in the state.

And where there's such a huge precipitation shift, because the amount of moisture isn't changing that much in the air as a net, there will be droughts as well, too, more frequently.

Changes in precipitation could be the cause as much as changes in tempeChanges in precipitation could be the cause as much as changes in tempechanges in temperature.

But much of it is, including changes in the frequency and variance of precipitation, the proportion of dry days, and changes in river flow and runoff.