Sentences with phrase «precipitation from»

Weather reports show that in the many decades since the great flood of 1913, Kettering and other parts of the Dayton area still get enormous amounts of precipitation from time to time, and wind up partially flooded.
The basic thesis presented by No Tricks Zone is that these graphs, which are inferred records of things like temperature and precipitation from specific localities through time, show that the climatological changes happening right now are neither dramatic nor man made...
Making matters worse, overdevelopment throughout the region increases the amount of impervious surfaces — particularly driveways and parking lots — which prevent more precipitation from being absorbed into the ground.
Warmer air holds more moisture, feeding more precipitation from all storms including hurricanes, significantly amplifying extreme rainfall and increasing the risk of flooding.
The Karakoram, however, receives most of its precipitation from non-monsoonal winter storms, and the region stays mostly cool and dry during the summer (Kapnick et al. 2014).
Multidecadal variability in methane concentrations throughout the LPIH is weakly correlated or uncorrelated with reconstructions of temperature and precipitation from a variety of geographic regions.
The heaviest precipitation from the repeat storms that have struck the Golden State have hit the very region that drains to Lake Oroville, and the frequency of the storms has meant that the lake has not had a chance to recover, with water levels dropping significantly in between storms.
Among his predictions for this winter are a lack of strong storms along the Atlantic coast, colder than normal temperatures in the northern Plains and Great Lakes region, and abundant January precipitation from the lower Middle West to the mid-Atlantic seaboard.
Worse yet, the snow on the ground — by lowering air temperatures several degrees — increases the likelihood that precipitation from forthcoming storms, like the one forecast for Friday, will tend toward the frozen variety.
Stormwater runoff is generated when precipitation from rain and snow hits impervious surfaces such as roads, rooftops, or parking lots and is not absorbed into the ground.
Precipitation from clouds, in turn, influences soil moisture and evaporation rates.
PCIC's PRISM climatologies use observations of temperature and precipitation from thousands of stations in BC and integrate other sources of information, including digital elevation data, snow data, upper atmosphere climatologies, glacier inventories, and local and expert knowledge in order create a climatology of the province at a scale of 800 metres, for the period of 1971 — 2000.
For the year 2011, maps of mean (top left) CAPE from the SPARC radiosonde data, (top right) precipitation from the NWS RFC data, (bottom left) product of the top two maps, and (bottom right) CG lightning from the National Lightning Detection Network data.
If proven correct, the hypothesis could have massive ramifications on global policy — not to mention meteorology — as essentially the hypothesis means that the world's forest play a major role in driving precipitation from the coast into a continent's interior.
Representation of mean Arctic precipitation from NCEP - NCAR and ERA reanalysis.
While it's typical in the West to have big swings in precipitation from year to year, what has concerned scientists lately is that even good years are no longer producing the kind of runoff seen historically.
It would have been nice if they had also cited Soon and Baliunas, who, as Wigley had recognized, had drawn a similar conclusion about precipitation from similar evidence.
Observed 1979 — 2008 trends in global surface temperatures, Z850 and low - latitude precipitation are shown in Fig. 9a, and the simulated trends in Z850 and precipitation from the GOGA and TOGA ensemble means are shown in Fig. 9b, c, respectively.
68 percent of California weather stations located between 2,000 and 5,000 feet have experienced declines in the ratio of snow to total winter precipitation from 1949 - 2004.
Their Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness (LHASA) model melds information regarding slope, lithology, deforested areas, and proximity to fault zones and roads to derive a map of landslide susceptibility, which is then combined with satellite - derived estimates of precipitation from the past week to develop «nowcasts» of areas that are susceptible to landslides.
However, its impacts are still being felt in the Northeast and South as precipitation from Thor turned to ice overnight, prompting several school closures and delays.
The Great Plains States in the middle of the US, in a warming planet that is under the influence of an amplified Hadley Cell) would need to get its precipitation from the Subtropical jet.
Higher rates of precipitation from thunderstorms are becoming a more common event the world over as the hydrological cycle is amped up by the more than 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase that has already occurred since 1880.
But that's going to take precipitation from other areas.
Mean modeled winter precipitation from CESM LME ensemble members 2 to 5 show unsystematic differences in Southwest winter precipitation variability between each other and with our NADA PDSI time series (Table 1, S1 Fig).
Over Africa there is an overall reduction in precipitation from 1979 to present in both ERA - Interim and JRA - 55 that is not seen in GPCC, GPCP and is less pronounced in ERA5.
Below ERA - Interim precipitation and relative humidity of surface air are compared with a number of datasets, including to precipitation from an earlier version of E-OBS.
Variability measures applied to NADA PDSI, El Junco diatoms, Palmyra isotopes, and modeled precipitation from CESM were developed from the original, raw time series.
Over Africa there is an overall reduction in precipitation from 1979 to present in both ERA - Interim and JRA - 55 that is not seen in GPCC, GPCP or in the results to date from ERA5.
Amazon forest loss drives significant increases in precipitation from Dec - May (April excluded, Fig 3F), which corresponds temporally to increased soil moisture saturation and decreases in later, growing season limitations.
Percent chance of a positive 30 - year trend (2016 — 2045) in winter (a) SAT and (b) precipitation from the CESM1 Large Ensemble.
The already - wet soils and heavy precipitation from Matthew led to significant flooding in these areas.
[Yes, and it continues: «Results suggest a general decreasing trend in monsoonal precipitation from 6650 to 2150 cal.
Estimates of historical winter precipitation from 1900 — 2012 in ponderosa pine forests within Verde watershed from PRISM model [25].
Geoengineering operations are not only cutting off precipitation from the US West and destroying the ozone layer globally, the desiccant particulates from the fallout create an incendiary dust that coats foliage and structures.
Australia's unusual soils and topography prevented the majority of this precipitation from running off into the ocean, leading to a halt in the long - term trend of rising sea levels.
As I explained above — major dams are designed by a different method of estimating probable maximum precipitation from recorded high intensity storm precipitation transformed by local and regional factors including moisture availability.
So melting of ice on land, or precipitation from the atmosphere can only decrease the moment of inertia, so the rotation speeds up as land ice melts, and runs down to sea level.
We created four largely independent climate variables to represent present climate, derived from average monthly mean temperature and monthly total precipitation from the 1 km resolution DAYMET 1980 — 1998 mean climate database (www.daymet.org)[63].
(Top) Observed trends (% per decade) over the period 1951 to 2003 in the contribution to total annual precipitation from very wet days (i.e., corresponding to the 95th percentile and above).
For the wheat - growing regions, the report said, cumulative precipitation from Oct. 1 to Dec. 12 was only 29 percent of the average for the period.
Overall, a clear picture that most precipitation from Greenland comes from the extratropical North Atlantic and Polar seas.
Emori and Brown (2005) show percentage changes of annual precipitation from the ensemble.
Geoengineering is the single greatest factor which is stealing precipitation from where it is needed most.
Seasonal mean temperature and precipitation from these models will be compared and validated here.
Xi'an has most of its annual precipitation from August to late October in the form of rain.
Best of China Tour: take 8 days private trip to visit China golden triangle cities - Beijing, Xian Shanghai to explore China's history and culture with Xi'an has most of its annual precipitation from August to late October in the form of rain.
Brent Christner, assistant professor of biological sciences at LSU, recently found evidence that bacteria and biological cells are the most efficient ice - forming catalysts in precipitation from locations around the globe.
«Since we get most of our precipitation from October to May, we really need the melting snow in the dry summer months to keep streamflows at acceptable levels for fish, water supply, recreation.»
«The proxy records used in this study appear to contradict other studies that have used direct observations of precipitation from rain gauges... All else being equal, I would trust direct rainfall measurements over proxy records.»
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