Sentences with phrase «precipitation trends»

An interesting thing to watch is the effect of precipitation trends over the next decade or two.

Moreover, local heavy precipitation trends may not accurately reflect changing patterns happening at a larger, regional level.

Summer precipitation trends are not quite as distinct as summer temperatures.

While every region of the country has seen a rise in winter temperatures since 1970, precipitation trends paint a more varied picture.

Climate model projections of 21st century precipitation trends in Africa's Sahel disagree about whether to expect more frequent droughts or a rainier future.

I've analyzed long - term overall precipitation trends for 1895 - 2009.

The ISPM overview states: «There is no globally - consistent pattern in long - term precipitation trends, snow - covered area, or snow depth.

He previously provided software development and meteorological analysis for the University of Victoria school - based weather station network, and studied precipitation trends on Vancouver Island as part of his graduate work.

Sarojini et al. (2012) found little if any anthropogenic climate change signal in either the annual or seasonal observed precipitation trends in land areas in the latitude band which contains the majority of the U.S. (Figure 2).

The methodology developed in Lovejoy's two recent papers could also be used by researchers to help analyze precipitation trends and regional climate variability and to develop new stochastic methods of climate forecasting, he adds.

Local and regional precipitation trends are nearly as important as temperature in determining the fate of many animals, he explained, and that's especially true with moisture - sensitive creatures such as amphibians.

Attribution of precipitation trends suggest evidence of human influence at latitudes similar to that of the UK29.

Future precipitation trends in both areas aren't as clear, though there are indications that rain will come in more intense, episodic bursts, leaving more time between them for trees to experience drought stress.

To assess Montana's historical climate, we evaluated temperature and precipitation trends since the mid-20th century by using standard statistical methods to analyze records of temperature and precipitation.

Adaptation to climate change and variability: farmer responses to intra-seasonal precipitation trends in South Africa.

Figure 3 shows Sahel precipitation trends from Held et al., expressed as July - September proportional amounts relative to the 1901 - 2000 observed mean.

In the Mediterranean area, yearly precipitation trends are negative in the east, while they are non-significant in the west (Norrant and Douguédroit, 2006).

Previous studies on the modification of precipitation trends by quantile mapping have focused on mean quantities, with less attention paid to extremes.

The TOGA ensemble produces very similar tropical precipitation trends as GOGA.

Since 1950, 17 of the 22 El Niño patterns that developed have been in the weak - to - moderate range.1 There is far more variation among precipitation trends during these weak El Niño patterns than during stronger ones.

Finally, because clouds are a large source of modelling uncertainty, we consider whether resolving errors in cloud simulation could reconcile modelled global mean precipitation trends of about 1 — 3 % \ (\ hbox -LCB- K -RCB- ^ -LCB--1 -RCB- \) with some estimates of observed trends of 7 % \ (\ hbox -LCB- K -RCB- ^ -LCB--1 -RCB- \) or more.

... «stations experiencing low, moderate and heavy annual precipitation did not show very different precipitation trends,»... «deserts / jungles are neither expanding nor shrinking due to changes in precipitation patterns.»

An analysis of extreme precipitation trends in Europe during the 20th century has identified a wetting trend over central and western Europe from 1921 to 1999.

«This ongoing research is going to tell us what winter precipitation trends might be and, most importantly, how that will be reflected in glacier mass balance, which is the absolute signature criteria for water security in the future,» said Robert Sandford, Canada's representative for the United Nations Water for Life initiative.

Druyan, L.M., 2010: Studies of 21st century precipitation trends over West Africa.

Though no research has yet been done to attribute the staggering rainfall totals from this storm to climate change, the downpours are very much in line with heavy precipitation trends.

submitted: SST and circulation trend biases cause an underestimation of European precipitation trends).

The magnitude (and in some regions, even the sign) of the projected temperature and precipitation trends over Europe, Russia and parts of the Middle East vary considerably across the ensemble depending on the evolution of the NAO in each individual member.

Zhang et al. (2007) showed that models using natural + anthropogenic forcings do a much better job of matching observed precipitation trends than either natural or anthropogenic alone.

The ISPM states: «There is no globally - consistent pattern in long - term precipitation trends.»

Climate simulation models can also be used to research the impact that GHG will have on precipitation trends in a particular region.

Two genes that help control how birch trees respond to light — PHYC and FRS10 — had notable genetic mutations correlating with latitude, longitude and temperature, while the mutations in PHYC were also related to precipitation trends.

The flooding continued the heavy precipitation trend of 2010, which was the wettest year on record.

And lastly, although the models get the precipitation trends spot - on, they «significantly underestimate the magnitude of change [in rainfall],» Hegerl admits, explaining that better modeling is near the top of the agenda for the researchers.

Merging data from the four different stalagmites provided a record of precipitation trends in the western Pacific over the past 100,000 years.

A new study shows that predicting temperature and precipitation trends three to four weeks in advance is possible.

Global climate projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, showing temperature and precipitation trends for two different future scenarios, as described in the Climate chapter of this assessment (IPCC 2014a).

This assessment of climate change effects on Montana agriculture must start with the basic observations that temperatures are rising and precipitation trends are variable across seasons and regions in Montana.