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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.

Climatology of Daily Precipitation and Extreme Precipitation Events in the Northeast US (Journal of Hydrometeorology)

Warmer air can hold more moisture than cooler air, which has contributed to an increase in heavy precipitation events in many regions.

[26] Historically, the most intense storms and precipitation events in California have been tied to wintertime atmospheric rivers that fed on high levels of water vapor in the air.

Increase in heavy precipitation events in mid-latitudes, disproportionate with changes in mean (1951 - 2003)[AR4 3.8.2.2]

PCIC Climatologist Faron Anslow will presented a talk titled, «Climatology of extreme precipitation events in British Columbia using a new comprehensive climate dataset.»

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

Abstract The Key Role of Heavy Precipitation Events in Climate Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California Climate model simulations disagree on whether future precipitation will increase or decrease over California, which has impeded efforts to anticipate and adapt to human - induced climate change........

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.

There are multiple studies associating extreme precipitation events with waterborne disease outbreaks and strong climatological evidence for increasing frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the future.

Given projected increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the Midwest (Chapter 2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 6), 57 it appears that sewer overflow will continue to constitute a significant current health threat and a critical source of climate change vulnerability for major urban areas within the Midwest.

While there has been a 70 percent increase in heavy precipitation events in the region since 1958, most of that has been in warm weather rainstorms, Ken Kunkel, a researcher at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said.

«We know that in particular that [the regions around] Houston, Louisiana, and Florida are prone to some of the most extreme precipitation events in the United States,» said Sarah Kapnick, a researcher at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

A nice example is a near flooding situation in Northern Netherlands (January 2012), caused by a combined occurrence of a saturated soil due to excessive antecedent precipitation, a heavy precipitation event in the coastal area and a storm surge with a duration of several days that hindered the discharge of excess water from the area.

The name of the Wivenhoe is common currency, as one would expect for a dam which was massively vented at the height of a major precipitation event in which several people died.

Not exact matches

According to the Climate Science Special Report released on Nov. 2, heavy precipitation events are becoming more frequent and intense in most regions of the world.

Climatic variability like precipitation changes or increase in extreme events such as storms and tropical cyclones is known to significantly modify the Earth's surface.

It also has seen a 71 percent increase in the frequency of extreme precipitation events — more than any other region in the United States, according to the paper.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

«If we look at precipitation events over the long term, there is an increase in frequency of extremes.

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.

«We expect the first heavy precipitation events with a clear global warming signal will appear during winters in Russia, Canada and northern Europe over the next 10 - 30 years,» said co-author Dr Ed Hawkins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, UK.

Our study shows is that increases in the number of extreme heat and extreme precipitation events, particularly during summer months, lead to more asthma hospitalizations in Maryland.»

«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.

They also collect iron - rich magnetic materials within these layers, which originated in overlying soil and are transported into the cave during precipitation and flooding events.

Still, he says, «One of the clearest signals we see is that an increase in global temperatures leads to an increase in extreme or heavy precipitation events.»

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

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.

Zhibin Zhang, an ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Zoology in Beijing and a co-author of the paper, says that in the event of a plague outbreak, «monitoring and prevention measures should be taken in regions facing an obvious increase in precipitation or flooding events, and with close transportation connections with plague [centers].»

Climate scientists know that the intensity of extreme precipitation events is on the rise because there's more water vapor in the atmosphere caused by higher global and sea temperatures.

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.

The number of heavy precipitation events will continue to increase in the assessment area, and impacts from flooding and soil erosion may also become more damaging.

Expected increases in extreme heat and drought events will bring changes in precipitation, air and water temperatures, air density and humidity, write Matthew Bartos and Mikhail Chester in the current issue of the research journal Nature Climate Change.

«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.

Computer models showed a reduction in what Edwards called «extreme precipitation events» in the fall season in western South Dakota when compared to climate conditions in the 1800s.

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

Studies by Climate Central and other groups have shown an increase in the odds of some precipitation events from warming.

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.

The authors predict a 25 % rise in the frequency of precipitation whiplash events by the end of the twenty - first century in northern California, increasing up to 100 % in southern California.

Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.

However, there has been a general trend of decreasing winter precipitation from 1950 to present; this pattern is most evident in the northwest and central portions of the state and may be due to increased frequency of El Niño events (see Climate chapter).

This annual report places the temperature and precipitation averages into historical perspective, while summarizing the notable events that occurred in 2015.

Another aspect of this phenomenon is that in a warmer, wetter world a larger proportion of the precipitation falls in extreme events.

Discussion of the Results: The results show that there is good connection between ENSO events and the changes in the background temperature and the precipitation in Nigeria.

Average winter precipitation has decreased by 0.9 inches (2.3 cm), which can mostly be attributed to natural variability and an increase in El Niño events, especially in the western and central parts of the state.

-- Along with analyzing historical trends in temperature and precipitation, we performed an analysis of changes in extreme climate events since the middle of last century.

Climate model projections show a warmer Montana in the future, with mixed changes in precipitation, more extreme events, and mixed certainty on upcoming drought.

Around 1.2 billion people live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation mainly due to lack of precipitation combined with high variability and frequent drought events, lack of infrastructure, increased pollution and unsustainable water management.