Sentences with phrase «precipitation extremes partly»
Warming is linked to increases in precipitation extremes partly because of the physical effect of warming on atmospheric conditions.
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The hope in California is that the large amounts of precipitation usually associated with extreme El Niño events would lessen the impacts of the state's multi-year drought by partly refilling reservoirs and groundwater, even as scientists caution that this might not happen to the degree needed to alter the present situation.