Sentences with phrase «precipitation across»

Today, the system is flinging frozen precipitation across the I 95 corridor even as it prepares the batter the East Coast with yet one more bout of gale force winds and heavy seas.

PRUDENCE RCM outputs showed non-linear relationships between mean maximum temperature and indices of drought and heatwave (Good et al., 2006), while changes in maximum 1 - day and 5 - day precipitation amounts were systematically enhanced relative to changes in seasonal mean precipitation across many regions of Europe (Beniston et al., 2007).

In our presentation to the Science Policy Conference of the American Geophysical Union this summer, we even included a table listing the number of years into the future it would be before projected changes in precipitation across the U.S. rose above the level of nature variability.

«From this pilot study we conclude that local terrain and remotely sensed variables can be used to infer annual mean temperature and precipitation across the most populous, south - west area of Yemen.

La Niña tends to «lead to more of a chance of below - normal precipitation across the southern United States,» said Dan Collins, a weather forecaster at the CPC.

Scientists also factored long - term, climate change trends into the three - month seasonal outlook by looking at the last 10 to 15 years of temperature and precipitation across the country.

2012 was also the 15th driest year on record, with an average of 26.57 inches of precipitation across the country.

«And it leads to more of a chance of above - normal precipitation across much of the northern parts of the United States.»

A warmer atmosphere drives more extreme precipitation across all storm types, which in turn increases the the risk of flooding.

Obviously, climate models whose hindcasts differ in sign from what is observed (Zhang et al., 2007), or which indicate that human influences are indistinguishable from natural changes (Sarojini et al., 2012) possess no skill in identifying a human - induced climate signal on observed precipitation across the U.S. and therefore should not be used to make future projections.

Daly, C., M. Halbleib, J.I. Smith, W.P. Gibson, M.K. Doggett, G.H. Taylor, J. Curtis and P.P. Pasteris, 2008: Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the coterminous United States.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

Since 1895, precipitation across the CONUS has increased at an average rate of 0.16 inch per decade.

The atlas also tracks the reach of the great European famine of 1315 - 1317, when historical documents describe how excessive precipitation across much of the continent made growing food nearly impossible.

It found that Brazil's protection of a core zone of rainforest would be enough to maintain precipitation across the basin and avoid the catastrophic «die - off» projected by other models, notably the Hadley model produced by the UK Meteorological Office.

In his talk, he discussed how to catalogue the occurance of extreme precipitation across British Columbia, using a new comprehensive data set from Environment Canada, in order to create a climatological baseline.

Overall, the scientists found that precipitation extremes of different kinds will occur, with only small changes in the mean precipitation across the rainy season.

To name just a few of the climate impacts of the annular modes: the NAM is associated with large anomalies in surface temperatures and precipitation across North American and Eurasia, in the distribution of sea - ice throughout the Arctic, in sea - surface temperatures over the North Atlantic, and in the spatial distribution ozone in the lower stratosphere.

We calculated mean winter precipitation across 15 -, 25 -, and 35 - year periods from this modeled data and used this information to select droughts and pluvials.

It is worth noting that the PDO is currently in a negative phase, which historically favors reduced precipitation across much of California during ENSO - neutral years.

At a global scale, grasslands are generally distributed in regions of low precipitation across a wide range of temperatures, with precipitation particularly limiting grassland productivity.

The Candadian model projects decreases in precipitation across the eastern half of the US while the Hadley model projects increases.

He cited a recent analysis by scientists from the National Climatic Data Center that confirmed earlier studies showing a substantial increase already in the intensity of precipitation across the United States, interspersed by longer dry spells.

It may well be that the West will luck out as rising greenhouse gases induce an equatorial warming, or an El Niño - like response, and the resulting circulation changes increase precipitation across the mid-latitudes.

The majority of models suggest a slight increase in total average annual precipitation across the state, largely occurring in spring, particularly in the northwest.

Over North America, El Niño tends to strengthen the subtropical jet stream during the winter months, which tilts the odds for shifts in temperature and precipitation across much of the country.

By the end of the year, that pattern had flipped, with record and near - record temperatures across most of the East and near - to below - average temperatures for much of the West, associated with much needed above average precipitation across the region.

Over the 121 - year period of record, precipitation across the CONUS has increased at an average rate of 0.16 inch per decade.

Above - average precipitation fell across eastern parts of the state, but below - average precipitation across western and central parts of the state resulted in drought expanding during the season.

A constellation of new satellites are showing details of precipitation across the planet like never before

Recent Forest Service studies on high - elevation climate trends in the Pacific Northwest United States show that streamflow declines tie directly to decreases and changes in winter winds that bring precipitation across the region.

As precipitation moves inland, water with the heavier form of hydrogen falls out first, which creates predictable patterns of the stable isotopes ratios of precipitation across continents.

For the last 20 years, the Mercury Deposition Network has recorded mercury content of precipitation across the United States.

Expected La Niña... Potential impacts in the United States include an enhanced chance for below - average precipitation across much of the South, while above - average precipitation is favored for the northern Plains.

Not exact matches

Changing precipitation patterns helped Genghis Khan rise to power — and ride to victory across Eurasia

Empirical studies of forests across Alaska show that North America's white spruce require at least 280 millimeters (11 inches) of precipitation each year, a number that rises if mean summer temperatures are higher than 15.5 degrees Celsius (roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit).

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

New research presented in San Francisco yesterday suggests, however, that dusty air blown across the Pacific Ocean from Asia and Africa could be influencing precipitation in the region.

Maps of median TAE averaged across 23 model simulations for (a) and (b) mean surface air temperature, (c) and (d) highest daily maximum temperature, (e) and (f) lowest daily minimum temperature, (g) and (h) total precipitation, and (i), (j) maximum 1 - d precipitation for (a), (c), (e), (g) and (i) June - August and (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) December - February.

Dusty air blowing across the Pacific from Asia and Africa plays a critical role in precipitation patterns throughout the drought - stricken western U.S. Today, a scientist will present new research suggesting that the exact chemical make - up of that dust, including microbes found in it, is the key to how much rain and snow falls from clouds throughout the region.

The research, published yesterday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first study to find the signal of climate change in global precipitation shifts across land and ocean.

Under various climate and land - use scenarios, coniferous stands are expected to lose 71 percent to 100 percent of their current range to deciduous stands across New England by 2085, particularly in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, due to increased temperature and precipitation and changes in timber harvesting.

The National Weather Service is integrating dual - polarization technology — which is also helpful for monitoring precipitation in hurricanes and blizzards — into all 160 Doppler radars across the nation, expecting to finish by mid-2013.

Wildfires whipping across a landscape can burn away ground cover and vegetation, leaving soils exposed and easily erodible by precipitation.

There was no sign of dwindling precipitation for the watershed across the entire 30 - year period.

Some modeling studies of such effects have suggested drought in the western U.S. or changes in precipitation patterns across Europe.

«Our research looked at pools across the toad's range, in a variety of weather and precipitation conditions across a number of years,» said Christina Liang, a research ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station and lead author of the study.

His team also ran the models with predicted precipitation changes and arrived at similar conclusions, even though moisture levels can prompt more nuanced responses across species.

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.

As indicated by the August precipitation percentiles map below, extreme wetness was observed across part of the central United States, parts of northern Europe, central Siberia, Japan, and eastern Australia.