Sentences with phrase «on precip»

Precipitation affects growth, but in the far past you do not usually have data on precip to factor it out and infer temp.

The impact of soot and pollution on precip is complex.

There is a fascination (maybe obsession) with measure of ice melt extent with virtually no discussion or concern about the impact of an ice - free Arctic on precip and temp in western North America.

Not exact matches

Precip patterns may be increasing the ice on top of the hill, but melting around the flanks — even if an equal amount — destablizes the hill, allowing it to pancake.

There are a number of factors that control CH4 concentrations that are extermely poorly understood and are mostly ignored in the scenarios — the dependence on other gases (such as O3, and CO), the impact of increased temperatures and changes to precip on tropical and boreal wetland emissions, the existence (or not) of a significant methane hydrate source from permafrost or continental shelves, the climate impact on the atmopsheric chemistry of CH4.

Let me see if I got it right: (1) With GW we're not sure of getting much change in overall global average precip, but when when it rains it pours... & floods, which also means on the flip side we would expect increasing periods of no precip (aka droughts), since the global average precip is not changing.

Further, precipitation over land is a small fraction of the total, so there's a lot of room for changes in precip there without altering the result on the global mean.

I figure if we split the difference on the two, precip will be same.

So the impact of GW on TCs or precip does not have to be very much to cause a tremendously greater amount of damage and harm.

Water vapor and clouds, on the other hand, are highly active components of the climate system that re-spond rapidly to changes in temperature and air pressure by evaporating, condensing, and precip - itating.»

And the «weather» right now, what with the jet stream way south and a weak lingering LaNina still haunting, one system after another dropping tons of precip on the SW, sure doesn't appear to be fitting in with their projections.

Over large areas the addition of so much water vapor does have regional effects on temp, convection and precip.

I have seen very slow growth rates in larch from northern Siberia, but as you can see in the Salzer et al figure 4a the growth rates of the high elevation trees are ~ 0.4 mm on average compared to ~ 0.2 mm for the lower, precip limited site.

NOAA released a new report (Nov 23/09) on the building El Nino event with numerous graphs projecting temps and precip expected for NA.

If circulation patterns mean that you get more precip on land versus ocean, then you could theoretically have the same amount of snow but greater coverage because if it snows on the ocean you don't get snow cover...

We are supposed to have some mixed precip all week and possibly a significant snowstorm moving in on Wednesday into Thursday.