Sentences with phrase «precipitation events found»
They show that human - induced increases in greenhouse gases have contributed to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation events found in approximately two - thirds of data - covered parts of Northern Hemisphere land areas.
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Extreme weather events such as excessive precipitation and heat waves are on the rise, the report finds.
The panel finds that humans have already contributed to an increase in the frequency and duration of heat waves and an intensification of heavy precipitation events.
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.
An increase of intense precipitation events has been found on much of the world's land area [127]--[129].
So: The study finds a fingerprint of anthropogenic influences on large scale increase in precipitation extremes, with remaining uncertainties — namely that there is still a possibility that the widespread increase in heavy precipitation could be due to an unusual event of natural variability.The intensification of extreme rainfall is expected with warming, and there is a clear physical mechanism for it, but it is never possible to completely separate a signal of external forcing from climate variability — the separation will always be statistical in nature.
The related «News and Views» commentary by Richard P. Allan of the University of Reading expressed the findings well, saying the authors «provide evidence that human - induced increases in greenhouse - gas concentrations led to the intensification of heavy precipitation events over large swathes of land in the Northern Hemisphere during the latter half of the twentieth century.»
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.
«Lehmann et al. (2015) also found large — scale increasing patterns in extreme precipitation, with 12 % more record - breaking rainfall events over 1981 — 2010.
Concurrent Events: Dowdy and Catto's (2017) storm / extreme weather analysis found: «The highest risk of extreme precipitation and extreme wind speeds is found to be associated with a triple storm type characterized by concurrent cyclone, front and thunderstorm occurrences.»
In the most absurd case of Pielke misdirection, Field accurately reports the SREX findings on extreme precipitation events, which Pielke Jr. purports is a misrepresentation because of something that report said about flood losses.
The report, written by 220 experts from 62 countries, finds that climate change has already contributed to changes in extreme events — such as heat waves, high temperatures, and heavy precipitation — in many regions over the past 50 years.
A December 2017 study found that global warming made the precipitation seen over Houston and the surrounding area on August 26 — 28 about 15 percent (8 to 19 percent) more intense, or equivalently made such an event three (1.5 — 5) times more likely.
A December 2017 study found that global warming made the precipitation seen over Houston and the surrounding area on August 26 — 28 about 15 % (8 % — 19 %) more intense, or equivalently made such an event three (1.5 — 5) times more likely.
In Connecticut, the risk for contracting a stomach illness while swimming significantly increased after a one inch precipitation event, 49 and studies have found associations between diarrheal illness among children and sewage discharge in Milwaukee.50 More frequent heavy rain events could therefore increase the incidence of waterborne disease.
For example, the Climate and Health Assessment found that «rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and a higher frequency of some extreme weather events associated with climate change will influence the distribution, abundance, and prevalence» of some vectors like the mosquitos that carry the West Nile virus.
An increase of intense precipitation events has been found on much of the world's land area [127]--[129].
More than one - half of the stations showed a significant positive relationship at the daily time scale between warm nights (daily minimum temperature greater than the 90th percentile) or warm days (daily maximum temperature above the 90th percentile) and heavy - precipitation events (daily precipitation exceeding the 75th percentile), with the greater frequencies found for the east and southwest coasts during autumn and winter.
One of the major findings is an increase in key types of extreme weather events, especially in heat waves and large precipitation events, in the U.S. and around the world over the last 50 years.
They found that severe storms become more likely in the future, with a 50 % increase in the frequency of precipitation events of.80 inch (20 mm) or more of rain.
An increase of intense precipitation events has been found on much of the world's land area.
The SREX clearly found a major increase in heat waves and extreme precipitation events, and in order to adapt to these occurrences, the intensity and frequency of which is likely to increase, it would be essential to take in hand urgently certain low regrets measures.