Sentences with phrase «precipitation patterns more»

«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.

Not exact matches

Fueled by tropical moisture drawn north and pinned over the area by a stalled weather pattern, the amount of precipitation between Sept. 9 and 15 in some areas was more than what typically falls in an entire year.

While trees possess the genetic diversity to adjust to current conditions, climate models suggest that temperature and precipitation patterns in many parts of the world may expose trees to more stressful conditions in the future.

In terrestrial d18O records, the precipitation patterns, timing and sources are important — more so in the tropics than at high latitudes though.

So apparently you're suggesting that decadal - scale precipitation patterns (more, less rainfall) and temperature changes are better explained by atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns will lead to relative changes in agricultural production, possibly spurring rural to urban migration, or migration across borders to seek more favorable conditions.

The situation regarding glaciers on Mt. Kenya is probably more complicated than just a question about temperature — changes in precipitation pattern will also affect their mass balance.

Impact of Global Warming Sea level rising Altered precipitation pattern Change in soil moisture content Increase in some extreme weather More flood mMore flood moremore.

At the same time, precipitation patterns are also changing all over the planet; in the Arctic, that means more erratic snowfall.

After accessing and graphing the satellite data on both water vapor and precipitation levels,... (View More) students will examine, compare and interpret monthly, seasonal, yearly and / or global patterns.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

«Lehmann et al. (2015) also found large — scale increasing patterns in extreme precipitation, with 12 % more record - breaking rainfall events over 1981 — 2010.

The shift can be explained by changing precipitation patterns and higher average temperatures that make moisture evaporate from the soil more rapidly than in the past, the study said.

More Scientific Evidence For CO2's Dubious Climate Impact Emerges Image Source: Robertson and Chilingar, 2017 According to the most basic precepts of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), variations in CO2 concentrations exert significant control on sea surface temperatures, glaciers, sea levels, and generalized climate dynamics (i.e., precipitation patterns).

Storms, floods, and droughts will generally be more severe as precipitation patterns change.

And even though on average more warmth will mean more evaporation, and therefore more water vapour in the atmosphere and more precipitation in some of those zones that already have ample rainfall, the pattern could be different in the arid lands.

The widespread trend of increasing heavy downpours is expected to continue, with precipitation becoming less frequent but more intense.13, 14,15,16 The patterns of the projected changes of precipitation do not contain the spatial details that characterize observed precipitation, especially in mountainous terrain, because the projections are averages from multiple models and because the effective resolution of global climate models is roughly 100 - 200 miles.

It is a critical and highly integrated natural and economic system threatened by changing land - use patterns and a changing climate — including sea level rise, higher temperatures, and more intense precipitation events.

N (1) Natural mechanisms play well more than a negligible role (as claimed by the IPCC) in the net changes in the climate system, which includes temperature variations, precipitation patterns, weather events, etc., and the influence of increased CO2 concentrations on climatic changes are less pronounced than currently imagined.

The concept is related to the more general phenomenon of climate change, which refers to changes in the totality of attributes that define climate — not only sur - face temperatures, but also precipitation patterns, winds, ocean currents, and other measures of the Earth's climate.

Their precipitation patterns are also quite seasonal, making them more predictable.

One last point related to my last post, is the extent / degree of magnitude of a more meridional atmospheric circulation pattern (N.H. especially) could influence snow cover, cloud cover, and precipitation amounts which could set up stronger positive climatic feedbacks, which could then result in an even more significant climatic change going forward.

Instead, at these locations the general pattern is that such a relationship is found to hold up to about 12 °C, but between 12 and 24 °C extreme precipitation appears to increase more strongly with warming.

Peterson and Haug 2006 and Newton et al 2006, for example, attribute the coherence to latitudinal migrations of the ITCZ, hypothesizing that it (and other patterns) was further north in the Medieval period and further south in the Little Ice Age, explaining antiphase changes in precipitation whereby northerly tropical sites became drier in the Little Ice Age (Cariaco, Yucatan etc 15N or so) while more southerly tropical sites became wetter in the Little Ice Age (Lake Titicaca, Lake Malawi, Quelccaya etc. all at 10S or so).

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

This will help scientists explore, more accurately than is possible today, how rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, increasing greenhouse gas levels, and other natural and human - induced changes affect tropical forests» influence on Earth's climate.

Most climatologists believe that if temperatures rise more than another 1 degree C by 2100, conditions on the planet could become radically different and disruptive, including sharp shifts in precipitation patterns, more severe storms and droughts, the disappearance of the Arctic ice cap in summer, Greenland ice sheet instability, and much higher sea levels.

Indicators based on daily precipitation data show more mixed patterns of change but significant increases have been seen in the extreme amount derived from wet spells and number of heavy rainfall events.

But, interest in precipitation, jet stream, hurricane pattern changes encompass much more than just temperature.

GAO representatives visited 15 military installations, and at 12 of them found officials who said they had observed not only rising temperatures, stronger and more frequent storms, and changing precipitation patterns, but had also seen how those changes created «potential impacts of mission vulnerabilities,» the report said.

But recently, proposals for new dams have emerged, mostly in the name of improving water supplies strained by urban growth, a desire to irrigate more cropland, or adapting to expected changes in precipitation patterns accompanying climate change.

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.

Our approach in Swain et al. (2014) doesn't allow us to determine whether the amplitude of the flow pattern itself (i.e. its «ridgey - ness») is increasing, nor whether years with extremely low precipitation have become more common.

Coincident with the increasing amplitude and variability of the «dipole» pattern (Wang et al. 2014), big swings in California precipitation (i.e. the occurrence of both very wet years and very dry years) are expected to become more common over the course of the 21st century (Wang et al. 2014, Funk et al. 2014).

Recent studies have shown that western boundary currents have shifted position slightly over the course decades, leading to changes in wind, temperature and precipitation patterns around the globe more commonly associated with El Niño and the other ocean oscillations.

For example, as temperatures warm, seawater absorbs less carbon dioxide, and as precipitation patterns change and plants grow (or die), they take up more (or less) carbon.