Sentences with phrase «precipitation events»

Other forms of severe weather are also closely linked to climate change, including a rise in extreme precipitation events in some regions and increasingly severe droughts in others.

The intensity / frequency of precipitation events in a global context under the wider context of climate change is always worth exploring.

An observed consequence of higher water vapor concentrations is the increased frequency of intense precipitation events, mainly over land areas.

The projections also indicate an increase in the basin - averaged precipitation and an increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events over the region as a whole.

Eight of the top 10 years for extreme one - day precipitation events have occurred since 1990.

Overall, it is likely that there has been a 2 to 4 % increase in the number of heavy precipitation events when averaged across the mid - and high latitudes.

Our state level analyses of extreme precipitation events shows a strong increasing trend since the 1950s, with 40 of 48 states showing at least some increasing incidence.

However, combined measuring stations around the world suggest there has been a global trend towards more frequent and intense hot extremes since the 1950s, as well as more heavy precipitation events.

The annual increase is again associated with the fact that the extreme events for the later years were significantly higher than compared to precipitation events in the 1980s.

Extreme Precipitation Events On The Rise.

Extreme daily precipitation events at Spitsbergen, a high Arctic island.

Vuille, M., D.R. Hardy, C.Braun, F.T. Keimig and R.S. Bradley, 1998: Atmospheric circulation anomalies associated with 1996/1997 summer precipitation events on Sajama Ice Cap, Bolivia.

According to the National Climate Assessment, average rainfall during heavy precipitation events across the Northeast, Midwest and Great Plains has increased by 30 percent since 1991.

In addition, the probability of a — 1.5 SD precipitation anomaly increases in spring (P < 0.001) and autumn (P = 0.01) in 2006 — 2080 relative to 1920 — 2005, with spring occurrence increasing by ∼ 75 % and autumn occurrence increasing by ∼ 44 % — which represents a substantial and statistically significant increase in the risk of extremely low - precipitation events at both margins of California's wet season.

The Midwest has seen a 37 percent increase in the amount of rain falling in heavy precipitation events since the late 1950s, the second - highest increase in the U.S. over that period.

Although not statistically significant when averaging over all stations, there is about a 1 % increase in the proportion of daily precipitation events occurring in the upper five percentiles (Figure 2.36 d).

Our analyses also indicate that the likelihood of large precipitation events will continue to increase, while droughts and floods are also likely to be increasing issues in various parts of the U.S in the next century.

All three methods agreed that the effect of climate change was positive, making precipitation events like this about 40 % more likely, with a provisional 2.5 - 97.5 % confidence interval of 5 - 80 %.

With rising global temperatures, the 2014 National Climate Assessment predicts that many communities will see more frequent extreme precipitation events like the one that hit Baton Rouge, La., last year.

Increases have also been reported for rarer precipitation events (1 in 50 year return period), but only a few regions have sufficient data to assess such trends reliably.

Exposure to extreme heat and precipitation events associated with increased risk of hospitalization for asthma in Maryland, U.S.A. Environmental Health.

As of August 6th, many locations have logged impressive streaks of over 50 days without a wetting precipitation event, a variable we also mapped for this post using the Climate Mapper.

Here we show that human - induced increases in greenhouse gases have contributed to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation events found over approximately two - thirds of data - covered parts of Northern Hemisphere land areas.

At the state level, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York and Louisiana all saw extreme precipitation events increase in frequency by more than 50 percent.

Basic theory, climate model simulations, and empirical evidence all confirm that warmer climates, owing to increased water vapor, lead to more intense precipitation events even when the total annual precipitation is reduced slightly (Trenberth et al. 2007).

Many climate studies assess trends and projections in heavy precipitation events using precipitation percentile (or quantile) indices.

With each increment of warming, the frequency of hot extremes and heavy precipitation events worldwide rises dramatically.

Nearly all studies to date published in the peer - reviewed literature agree that extreme precipitation event number and intensity have risen, when averaged over the United States.

This airmass is also expected to be incredibly warm for a California precipitation event; freezing levels could be as high as 10,000 feet or even higher during the initial part of the storm, with rain (instead of snow) expected at even very high mountain locations.

«This is likely to bring pronounced precipitation events on top of the already existing trend towards increasingly wet winters in these regions.»

Since a heat or precipitation event does not have the same socio - economic impact everywhere in the world, it is necessary to combine the new study approach with regional information on exposure and vulnerability in order to carry out a comprehensive risk assessment.

How are soil moisture, surface fluxes, and aerosol properties altered by deep convective precipitation events and seasonal accumulation of precipitation?

«Increased Record - Breaking Precipitation Events under Global Warming.»

The results indicate that extreme precipitation events consistently increase by the middle of the twenty - first century for all return periods (49 — 52 %), but changes may become more profound by the end of the twenty - first century (81 — 101 %).

But now the risk of fire is exacerbated by climate change, which heats air (stoking stronger winds) and water (leading to more evaporation and hence stronger precipitation events).

Since essentially the entire geographic region experiences a qualitatively Mediterranean climate — with strongly seasonal precipitation and a very distinct (but globally uncommon) summer dry season — most of California's annual precipitation derives from a relatively small handful of major cool - season precipitation events.

Enrico Scoccimarro, Silvio Gualdi, Gabriele Villarini, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Ming Zhao, Kevin Walsh, Antonio Navarra, Intense Precipitation Events Associated with Landfalling Tropical Cyclones in Response to a Warmer Climate and Increased CO2.