Sentences with phrase «much less precipitation»

Catchy moniker aside, Swain said this «anomalous, extraordinary» ridge was anchored in the northeast Pacific for most of 2013 and the early part of 2014, resulting in much less precipitation than normal for well over a year.

Not exact matches

Without those rare ice - forming triggers, much of the planet would see less precipitation than it does today.

«Much less is known about the impacts of freshwater influx from the precipitation associated with a hurricane.»

Since mid-May, much of the region has received less than half the amount of precipitation it typically gets.

Monthly total precipitation for the month of April amounts to a respectable 132 mm, which is more or less evenly distributed across much of the southern part of Maldives.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Following a wet December, drier to much drier than normal conditions returned to California, Nevada, and Oregon this month, with precipitation less than 50 % of normal across large portions of these states.

The atmospheric warming is the factor that can best explain this consistency, up to ~ 0.7 °C since 1950 and more marked since 1976, while the trend in precipitation is much less homogeneous over this area and is affected by a significant decadal variability.

Cooler colors show where precipitation may be much less: SC and FL in ND, MN, and WI.

If the planet cools too much, less water will evaporate and there will be less precipitation to remove CO2; the CO2 will build up, warming the planet.

We are beginning to sound like a broken record here, but again, it is impossible to present reliable future projections for precipitations changes across the U.S. (seasonal or annual) from a collection of climate models which largely can not even get the sign (much less the magnitude) of the observed changes correct.

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.

Proxy records that document summer precipitation are much less common and, of those that do exist, some suggest wetter summers during the medieval period (22, 45 — 47), whereas others indicate decadal variability of both drought and wetness (48).

A drought / deluge / drought sigmoid is much less advantageous than equipartition of an equal amount of precipitation over time, in particular if we do not know the lengths of droughts and deluges to expect.

For example, the western US was much wetter during the last glacial than it is today: http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/mojave/paleoenviron.html but there is no evidence that total global precipitation was any less than we see today.