Sentences with phrase «precipitation event does»

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«What they've done is identify the chain of events from seeding to precipitation on the ground, which has been sorely needed for the last 80 years,» says William Cotton, a former professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who was not involved with the research.

While the models do not reliably track individual extreme weather events, they do reproduce the jet stream patterns and temperature scenarios that in the real world lead to torrential rain for days, weeks of broiling sun and absence of precipitation.

And more water vapor worldwide is related to the atmosphere being warmer — we have about 7 percent more water vapor in the atmosphere now than we did in the 1950s, which is directly linked to the increase in heavy precipitation events.

«This increase in water vapor has contributed to increasing total precipitation in the fall season, but does not necessarily mean an increase in extreme precipitation events,» she added.

A new report released Friday by the National Academy of Sciences has found that such extreme event attribution studies can be done reliably for certain types of weather extremes, including heavy precipitation.

No single weather event can be attributed to climate change, but a warming climate does load the dice in favor of heavier extreme precipitation events.

However, higher temperatures do cause an increased chance of heavy precipitation events, and it is likely that the flooding in some of this year's U.S. flooding disasters were significantly enhanced by the presence of more water vapor in the air due to global warming.

«The President did not refer specifically to hurricanes, but he did refer to extreme precipitation events.

Peer - reviewed literature about the effects of climate change are in broad agreement that air and surface water temperatures are rising and will continue to do so, that ice cover is declining steadily, and that precipitation and extreme events are on the rise.

While not all urban areas within the Midwest have combined sewers for delivery to wastewater treatment plants, many do (for example, Chicago and Milwaukee), and such systems are vulnerable to combined sewer overflows during extreme precipitation events.

In weather systems, convergence of increased water vapor leads to more intense precipitation and the risk of heavy rain and snow events, but may also lead to reductions in duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change much.

Another study, published in Geophysical Research Letters in late December of last year, found that California's precipitation deficits alone do not make this drought a historic event.

You tend to see more flooding events, because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, so when it does rain or snow, you actually get more precipitation.

This information in the Tunesian National Communication does not provide any quantitative estimates of climate variability and / or change on rain - fed agriculture, but the clear qualitative implication is that climate changes — both drought and heavy precipitation events — will stress agriculture in Tunisia.

However, the report does say it is very likely that there will be more intense precipitation events over many areas, and that peak winds and rainfall rates from hurricanes are also likely to be higher.

Aggregates that defy locally your primer version of physics and in so doing create albedo effects lowering temperature, precipitation events lowering sea level when over land and altering temperature left right and centre.

the model does not simulate any dependence of Northern England precipitation on the state of El Niño, with a correlation coefficient of r = 0.01 and no visual indications that extreme events behave differently than the mean.

During summer, most of northern Europe experienced above average precipitation, as did the Alpine region and the north of Italy and Slovenia, with a number of heavy rainfall events heavily influencing the average for the season and leading to wide - spread flooding events.

It is noteworthy that there do seem to have been more severe precipitation events since the global temperature trend started to turn downwards recently but I still see suggestions from committed alarmists that that is a consequence of warming rather than cooling.

Very heavy precipitation events, defined as the heaviest one percent of storms, now drop 67 percent more precipitation in the Northeast, 31 percent more in the Midwest and 15 percent more in the Great Plains than they did 50 years ago.

Another aspect that the climate models don't seem to be predicting well enough is extreme precipitation event frequency in various regions.