Sentences with phrase «of precipitation systems»

Dr. Roy Spencer's article Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat here, describes the role of precipitation systems in controlling the greenhouse effect.

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Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «With increased precipitation and rapid snow melt, record water flows through major tributaries upstream and downstream of the lake, water is high throughout the Great Lakes system.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

Although precipitation and river systems are recharging a few parts of the northern aquifer, in most places nature can not keep up with human demands.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

Another advantage to a shared sewer is that such systems are usually built to withstand heavy loads and can better accommodate periods of heavy precipitation or storm surges that might overwhelm smaller, poorly conceived or maintained home - based septic tanks, which are by virtue of their size and the laws of physics more prone to overflow and send contaminants into nearby surface and ground waters.

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

The certainty of the forecasts is particularly important as warming leads to shifts from temperate to subtropical drylands, which leads to changes in precipitation and soil moisture, which in turn has profound effects on ecological services, provided to humanity, including the viability of certain temperate agricultural systems.

The researchers will couple their knowledge of risk analyses, for example, with sustainable technologies, water technologies, precipitation simulations, and traffic and system analyses to create «smart liveable cities».

«This cooling reduced precipitation over Africa, and in combination with a range of other complex climate feedback mechanisms tipped the humid system towards aridification,» explains the first author of the study, James Collins from Helmholtz Centre Potsdam — GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Alfred Wegener Institute — Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

«The human influence on the climate system has the effect of intensifying precipitation extremes,» Zwiers notes.

Although the rising average global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the global climate system, what's actually happening involves changes in circulation patterns, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes.

The five - year drought was exacerbated by an atmospheric pressure system in the North Pacific Ocean that researchers dubbed the «ridiculously resilient ridge,» which pushed storms farther north and deprived the Southwest of precipitation.

Since the evapotranspiration rates of the study's cropping systems held steady across several years of varying precipitation levels, the study also suggests that crop evapotranspiration rates may not be as sensitive to climate change as is currently assumed.

The location of this cave in the foreland of the East Carpathian Mountains means winter precipitation is modulated by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), with wetter conditions influencing the availability of nitrogen within the surrounding forest system.

With the help of a warning system which measures the risk of dengue incidence using precipitation and air temperature, it is possible to forecast the outbreak of dengue fever up to 16 weeks in advance.

«In the case of California's drought, the climate models do not indicate that such extremely low precipitation is an expected consequence of human influence on the climate system,» said

He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

They could have affected sea - surface and land temperatures, atmospheric pressure systems and humidity levels — all of which may have affected the rates of precipitation in California in recent years.

«Pore - Scale Study of Transverse Mixing Induced CaCO3 Precipitation and Permeability Reduction in a Model Surface Sedimentary System.»

These anvil cloud tops, which form from moisture not harvested by precipitation in tall, convective tower clouds, operate as Earth's thermal blanket and therefore are an important component of the climate system.

He is a co-chair of the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Systems Research Cloud - Aerosol - Precipitation Interactions Working Group, co-chair of the CESM Climate - Chemistry Working Group, and served 6 years on the Scientific Steering Committee for the Community Earth System Model.

Over the past several years, scientists from many institutions have explored the ability of SP - CAM to simulate tropical weather systems, the day - night changes of precipitation, the Asian and African monsoons, cloud - aerosol interactions and other climate phenomena.

Rising temperatures and shifts in precipitation and moisture balance of forests are likely to increase negative direct effects on forests, particularly in water - limited systems and in years with low precipitation.

Depth matters: effects of precipitation regime on soil microbial activity upon rewetting of a plant - soil system — Ilonka C. Engelhardt — The ISME Journal

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.

Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate system.

Rising CO2 levels have been linked to the globe's average temperature rise as well as a host of other changes to the climate system including sea level rise, shifts in precipitation, ocean acidification, and an increase in extreme heat.

The development of this river system may be linked to changes in temperature, precipitation, rainwater acidity, and storminess.

Key facts about the lesson are: The content covered by the lesson are; the water cycle as a system, the states of water and the proportion of water in different states, features / components of the water cycle (transpiration, percolation etc), flows and stores in the water cycle, factors that affect the rates of precipitation, condensation, evaporation, infiltration, percolation and interception in the water cycle.

The drainage basin as an open system with inputs (precipitation of varying type and intensity), outputs (evaporation and transpiration), flows (infiltration, throughflow, overland flow and base flow) and stores (including vegetation, soil, aquifers and the cryosphere)

Similarly, stormwater runoff, decreased evaporative cooling, and building damage from soil contraction and expansion are just a subset of how precipitation impacts will affect human systems.

This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems.

Precipitations at the Museum of Contemporary Cuts explores the contemporary fall from heaven of «perfect economic formulas» in the form of a text - based rain of ideological systems and financial structures.

By changing the placement and order of the words Amerika points the viewer towards systems of ideological engagement: clouds and precipitations as obfuscation and condescension.

Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.

In many regions, changing precipitation or melting snow and ice are altering hydrological systems, affecting water resources in terms of quantity and quality (medium confidence).

Putting my geologist's hat on, it is certainly plausable that (for instance) the passage of a low pressure system could bring forward an explosive volcanic eruption by a few hours; but extra precipitation reaching a magma chamber, or just lubricating faults around the chamber would be a bigger effect.

That applies (nearly) for the atmosphere as a whole, which is in equilibrium on time scales of around a month, but it doesn't apply to a local precipitation system like a hurricane or even a thunderstorm.

Science marches on and each year will bring greater understanding of the roles that the ocean cycles, precipitation systems, cloud formation, and solar effects play in this gigantic system.

Changes in precipitation regimes and extreme events can cause ecosystem transitions, increase transport of nutrients and pollutants to downstream ecosystems, and overwhelm the ability of natural systems to mitigate harm to people from these events.

12 Position on a Continent Distribution of Climate Regions Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation and distribution of climate.

Glaciers and snowpack, the key cryospheric components of high mountain systems, are sensitive to increases in temperature, shifting atmospheric circulation patterns, and varying amounts and forms of precipitation.

In 2010, intense precipitation concentrated over the elevated plains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to interaction of three weather systems from east, south and north.

9 Distribution of Climate Regions Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation and distribution of climate.

Trenberth argues that since science / physics has already established the human influence on climate, oceans, etc. (and Curry would not say otherwise) it makes more sense for Curry to have to show that there is no influence on water vapor and precipitation (i.e., intensification of storm activity / heavy precipitation) than to show that there is, because of basic physics / physical systems / physical relationships that constitute the global climate cycle.

Furthermore, the majority of the Earth's precipitation falls in the tropics and is a direct result of atmospheric convection; it is therefore a key area for improving ESMs representation of the earth system.

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That same study also warns that the climate system is «capable» of precipitation deficits that are more severe and longer - lasting than what we are seeing now.