Sentences with phrase «of rainfall increases»

After a hot and humid summer, Cancun in Mexico begins to cool down during October, when temperatures drop slightly and the probability of rainfall increases.

The probability of rainfall increases slightly as the month progresses, with the likelihood of rainfall rising from 43 % on September 1st up to 49 % by September 30th.

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He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

With the rainfall in 2016 there was increased scope to improve the health and resilience of aquatic ecosystems using a top up of Commonwealth environmental water within the Namoi River Valley.

«If rainfall across the Murray Darling Basin reduces over summer, allocation prices are likely to increase,» Mr Delves says, «However if a wet summer is experienced, then we are in for continued low volumes of allocation trade and lower prices.»

Our goal is to «rehydrate the landscape» by increasing the amount of rainfall that is absorbed into the ground to recharge water supplies and feed headwater streams.»

A particularly produced rainfalls tarpaulin is affixed to the infant stroller hood, and also is increased to the foot board of the dual infant running kid baby stroller.

Along with Niagara County, Orleans and Monroe counties are also severely affected by the rising water levels along the shoreline, caused by an increased amount of rainfall this season along with the controversial Plan 2014, an international agreement between the United States and Canada to regulate the water levels in Lake Ontario.

Increases in average temperature and rainfall were associated in Zanzibar with higher numbers of cholera cases within a definite time period.

This suggests that unexpected above - average rainfall events in the Ohio and Mississippi River basins will continue to increase the frequency of extreme flooding events.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

* Correction, 20 February, 9:45 a.m.: This article has been updated to correct amount of temperature drop and rainfall increase, the years of the simulations, the number of WRCP models used, and results of the control simulations.

When researchers ran the numbers for the Corn Belt, the global models fell short of reality: They predicted both temperature and humidity to increase slightly, and rainfall to increase by up to 4 % — none of which matches the observed changes.

Northern Brazil may lose 22 per cent of its annual rainfall by 2100, while the region around Chile could get a 25 per cent increase.

More extreme rainfall and rising sea levels will increase the frequency of devastating floods like those that hit Queensland in 2011.

«Our new data however, contrasts with sub-Saharan Africa and demonstrates that the South African climate responded in the opposite direction, with increasing rainfall, that can be associated with a globally occurring southward shift of the tropical monsoon belt.»

Areas of increased rainfall are shown in green, with darker colors representing a greater increase.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the global climate models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers.

In fact, increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere — now roughly 392 parts per million and rising — may be fertilizing the rainforest and preventing even greater impacts from reduced rainfall, although this question, Davidson and his colleagues wrote in the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.»

There were some increases in drought intensity as a result of increased heat but the weak reduction in rainfall meant only a slight increase in the frequency of droughts was detected.

When rainfall increased from the changing climate, flooding provided a thin layer of fresh water for Azolla to creep outward, over parts of the surrounding continents.

Such episodes of dramatically increased rainfall were the result of the intensification and northward displacement of the Indian Ocean Monsoon, which caused rainfall to reach across much of the Arabian Peninsula.»

Parton and colleagues suggest, however, that periods of increased rainfall were not driven by mid-high latitude deglaciations every ~ 100,000 years, but by periods of maximum incoming solar radiation every ~ 23,000 years.

The rise in temperature will be accompanied by erratic rainfall and increasing drought, the likes of which have already been seen in the country, according to the report.

Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from the El Niño, along with a devastated infrastructure and an influx of people into larger cities, likely caused the spike in Zika cases, Sorensen said.

Work by researchers from Taiwan and China found that the increase in rainfall intensity over the past three decades has been an entire order of magnitude greater...

A new, large survey of the mosquito - borne illness links it to increased rainfall, which may be a result of climate change

The warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from El Niño have previously been associated with a higher likelihood of dengue outbreaks.

«Since 1988 we have found evidence of increasing vegetation and rainfall,» he says.

Increasing rainfall in certain parts of the tropics, colloquially described as the wet get wetter and warm get wetter, has long been a projection of climate change.

Joint research from the Monash branch of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) and NASA published in Nature found even though other types of rainfall has decreased in frequency and the total number of thunderstorms remained the same, the increase in big storms had elevated total rainfall.

The research has also contributed to answering the important question whether the increase in rainfall observed in the tropics was simply caused by the fact of a warmer atmosphere or whether the underlying circulation in that region had changed.

On the other hand, climate change scenarios estimate that the soil loss rates may increase by 10 - 15 % by 2050 due to an analogous increase of rainfall - induced erosion in Europe.

Meanwhile, ongoing studies by Bill McGuire of University College London and Rachel Lowe at the University of Exeter, UK, are showing that non-glaciated volcanoes could also be at greater risk of catastrophic collapse if climate change increases rainfall.

The research team found that most of the change was because of alterations in rainfall that are expected to occur across the area, not because of increases in temperature.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

The study's authors expected about a 6 percent increase in rainfall from Hurricane Harvey because of warming in the Gulf of Mexico.

New research shows human - induced climate change increased the amount and intensity of Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented rainfall.

New research finds human - induced climate change increased the amount and intensity of Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented rainfall.

The new research confirms heavy rainfall events are increasing across the Gulf Coast region because of human interference with the climate system.

For the climate - related causes of food shocks, the researchers analyzed rainfall, temperature and — importantly — the international prices of food, including sudden increases in prices.

So looking for both increased rainfall in wet areas and a shift in storm tracks away from the equator helped the researchers separate the signal of climate change from the noise of natural variability.

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

Expansion of the Sahara is putting pressure on Sahel communities, such as Diakhao, that rely on seasonal increases in rainfall during the wet season.

The summer's record - breaking rainfall in the Northeast, as well as depleting populations of bats that prey on mosquitoes due to white - nose syndrome, have increased fears as the U.S. enters its 10th West Nile season.

The concentration of these magnetic minerals is enhanced with increasing rainfall and can be used as a record of past precipitation history.