Sentences with phrase «precipitation patterns»

Future changes in climate are expected to include additional warming, changes in precipitation patterns and amounts, sea - level rise, and changes in the frequency and intensity of some extreme events.

Now even that sector is facing difficulties because of changing precipitation patterns due to climate change.

The heat is not only melting glaciers and sea ice, it's also shifting precipitation patterns and setting animals on the move.

This is precisely the sort of headline that climate scientists have been warning us about when they talk about altered precipitation patterns as a result of global climate disruption.

This may demonstrate that the impact of warming on precipitation patterns was localized, with different regions showing a range of effects.

Global precipitation patterns are being moved in new directions by climate change, a new study has found.

What would be interesting to look at, rather than mean annual temperatures is the variability of temperature and precipitation patterns throughout the year.

A city also influences precipitation patterns in its vicinity.

Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns increase the frequency, duration, and intensity of other extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and tornadoes.

The cycle can be used to anticipate broad precipitation patterns in the future, and provide insight on climate change in the region over time.

The models show less agreement regarding summer precipitation patterns, though a slight majority of models suggest that there may be very small decreases in summer precipitation, particularly in the southeast.

For the energy sector, extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and changes to precipitation patterns pose a range of risks to energy infrastructure, supply, and demand.

Additionally, precipitation patterns all over the world would change dramatically.

The report features a long list of challenges managers will be faced with, including ocean acidification, groundwater variability, unusual precipitation patterns and extreme weather patterns.

Warming climate is projected to make many now - dry areas dryer, in part by changing precipitation patterns.

Rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will affect productivity through altered water requirements and water - use efficiency of most crops.

Development and growth not only increases human water use, but also increases greenhouse gas emissions that, in the long run alter precipitation patterns.

For example, every few years an ocean cycle appears in the Pacific ocean either as an El Niño and La Niña with global temperature and regional precipitation pattern changes.

This shift can have important consequences for global weather, and is intimately related to precipitation and snowpack in California during the winter, as well as precipitation patterns in other regions.

It is generally thought that changing precipitation patterns impacted the rise of the Mongols and their domination of the Eurasian continent in the 13th century — but was it rain or drought?

Some modeling studies of such effects have suggested drought in the western U.S. or changes in precipitation patterns across Europe.

Results imply that information via the lateral boundary conditions is not always sufficient to minimize departures between simulated and actual precipitation patterns for more than several days.

For plants and animals fleeing rising temperatures, varying precipitation patterns and other effects of climate change, the eastern United States will need improved «climate connectivity» for these species to have a better shot at survival.

Ropelewski, C. F. & Halpert, M. S. Global and regional scale precipitation patterns associated with the el niño / southern oscillation.

Students examine maps of monsoon seasons and climographs to understand precipitation patterns on Everest, then determine the best time of year to climb.

Volatile precipitation patterns, with heavy rains followed by drought, can lead to ideal conditions for wildfires in some states.

Previous studies have modeled that geoengineering experiments could disrupt precipitation patterns around the world (ClimateWire, Nov. 6).

«These analyses indicate that regions in which P. simus [greater bamboo lemur] are currently found are projected to experience precipitation patterns more comparable to those in the regions in which P. simus has gone extinct,» the paper notes.

For example, a change in carbon storage in ecosystems that reduces atmospheric concentrations causes changes in climate forcing and ocean acidification, which in turn affect myriad other environmental attributes, including precipitation patterns, with effects on agricultural production, the probability and severity of flooding, and the health of marine resources, among others.

Rosarito Beach has a semi-arid climate with Mediterranean - like precipitation patterns (Köppen climate classification BSh / BSk).

Other likely consequences (e.g. rapid dynamical sea level changes, shift in the inter-tropical convergence zone and hence tropical precipitation patterns) are discussed in the Rahmstorf and Zickfeld editorial essay mentioned above, and the references therein.

The inability of global climate models to match the timing or placement of short - term or regional precipitation patterns such as the West African monsoon may be alleviated by «downscaling» to use smaller scale climate models with increased area resolution.

From the modelled precipitation pattern for the Neckar catchment and its neighbouring areas (Fig. 9), it can be seen that the highest precipitation with values up to 230 mm in 36 hours occurred in the western crest of the northern parts of the Black Forest.

Changing precipitation patterns helped Genghis Khan rise to power — and ride to victory across Eurasia

Shifts in bird migrations create flu strains These regular precipitation patterns change how migratory birds interact.

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.

Dry places are expected to get drier with climate change, while wet places are expected to get wetter, but Crouch said that the particular precipitation pattern seen in June isn't what is expected in a warming world, according to the National Climate Assessment that was released in May.

Powerful eruptions can wreak havoc on monsoons by shifting and weakening the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a belt of low pressure near the equator that drives nearby precipitation patterns.

The first shift is in a strengthening of existing precipitation patterns.

You end up with this interesting observation where you get both floods and droughts just by taking the usual precipitation pattern and doing a shift,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Observing rainfall in an El Niño year is especially interesting because the prevailing precipitation patterns change, often in extreme ways.

Inspired by the theory to explain solidification and crystallization patterns, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and postdoctoral fellow C. Nadir Kaplan, developed a new geometrical framework to explain how previous precipitation patterns grew and even predicted new structures.

Studies disagree, however, on what other unintended effects SRM may engender, and dramatic changes to precipitation patterns remain particularly enigmatic and potentially devastating.