Sentences with phrase «precipitation under climate change»

This study seeks to explain the effects of cloud on changes in atmospheric radiative absorption that largely balance changes in global mean precipitation under climate change.

Rosenzweig, C., F. Tubiello, R. Goldberg, E. Mills, and J. Bloomfield, 2002: Increased crop damage in the U.S. from excess precipitation under climate change.

Increased crop damage in the US from excess precipitation under climate change.

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Under various climate and land - use scenarios, coniferous stands are expected to lose 71 percent to 100 percent of their current range to deciduous stands across New England by 2085, particularly in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, due to increased temperature and precipitation and changes in timber harvesting.

They also used data on precipitation in Colombia from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to model changes under different temperature and precipitation scenarios.

Here's the problem forests and forest managers face under climate change: Increasing global mean temperatures, changes in precipitation, and the hydrologic cycle are expected to lead to temperature and drought stress for many tree species.

The second shows that climate change can cut both ways; under projections for precipitation, most of the Canada boreal is expected to become moister; therefore, wildfire risk should drop.

This influence of climate change on some extremes, including especially heat waves and heavy precipitation and some kinds of storm and flood events must no longer be waved away, swept under the rug, or otherwise ignored.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

The intensity / frequency of precipitation events in a global context under the wider context of climate change is always worth exploring.

Previous climate models have shown that there didn't appear to be much change in annual average precipitation in California or changes were unknown, even under aggressive warming scenarios.

In Ghana, for example, agriculture employs over half of Ghana's population, but it's under threat as climate change alters temperatures and precipitation patterns.

Choi and Fisher (2003) estimated the expected change in flood damages for selected USA regions under two climate - change scenarios in which mean annual precipitation increased by 13.5 % and 21.5 %, respectively, with the standard deviation of annual precipitation either remaining unchanged or increasing proportionally.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Messages 5 and 6).4, 10 A range of model projections for the end of this century under a higher emissions scenario (A2), averaged over the region, suggests about 5 % to 20 % (25th to 75th percentile of model projections) increases in winter precipitation.

«You can have aridification under climate change even if precipitation stays the same or goes up,» Udall said.

Say I have data on average precipitation for the last 30 years in the Southwest United States, as well as simulations from 20 different climate models of current and future precipitation in the same region, and I want to know what the expected change in precipitation will be at the end of this century under a specific emissions scenario.

According to Jones, a substance produced by thriving coral reefs seed clouds leading to precipitation in a long - standing natural process that is coming under threat due to climate change.