Sentences with phrase «precipitation levels contribute»

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

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The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.

Deforestation also contributes to decreased evapotranspiration, which lessens atmospheric moisture and precipitation levels.

Overall, however, scientists project an increase in precipitation in the Great Lakes region (with extreme events projected to contribute to this increase), which will contribute to maintenance of or an increase in Great Lakes water levels.

A high pressure ridge sitting of California's coast for several years (known as the «Ridiculously Resilient Ridge» for its persistence) has been a primary factor contributing to the low levels of precipitation.

Global climate change has contributed to the higher sea surface and sub-surface ocean temperatures, a warmer and moister atmosphere above the ocean, higher water levels around the globe, and perhaps more precipitation in storms.»

These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species composition, and increased risk of fires.

She continues by observing that «it is likely that both extreme weather events (storms, floods, heat waves) and changes in mean temperatures, precipitation and sea - levels will in many cases contribute to increasing levels of mobility.»