Sentences with phrase «predict changes in the region»

The newly recovered descriptions could provide valuable perspective about past conditions and possibly help scientists hone computer models that predict changes in the region's climate.

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A study published in August 2017 in Global Change Biology used data on where water accumulates and how it flows across the landscape to predict where peat might be hiding in tropical regions.

A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) study found that between 53 and 97 percent of natural trout populations in the Southern Appalachian region of the U.S. could disappear due to warmer temperatures predicted by global climate change models.

Long - term datasets from the region help scientists understand the reasons behind long - term changes and predict what the region will face in the future.

To track changes in coastal waters and predict when seafood species in the region may be safe to consume, it will be necessary to establish a «temporal data set» — that is, to measure the levels and distributions of contaminant radionuclides at a given location over time, he says.

This has important implications for understanding and predicting changes in rainfall patterns over large populations across the Asia and Oceania regions.

«We must be able to predict how climate change will impact... regions in the next 10 to 20 years.»

The finding opens new avenues for predicting future trends in atmospheric nitrous oxide as well as in identifying climate change mitigation actions in the Arctic, a region that is particularly sensitive to climate change.

Models predict that warming in the Andes is likely to contribute both to more flooding and more drought in the region as mountain environments change.

We present a new modeling system that predicts both internal variability and externally forced changes and hence forecasts surface temperature with substantially improved skill throughout a decade, both globally and in many regions.

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What I am saying is that they used a regional climate model which did not include the changes in the Arctic region, and the boundary conditions they used were those predicted using GCMs that we know got the Arctic ice wrong!

Certainly climate change does not help every region equally, but careful studies predict overall benefits — fewer storms, more rain, better crop yields, longer growing seasons, milder winters, and lower heating costs in colder climates.

Indeed, snowfall is often predicted to increase in many regions in response to anthropogenic climate change, since warmer air, all other things being equal, holds more moisture, and therefore, the potential for greater amounts of precipitation whatever form that precipitation takes.

Climate change is predicted to degrade the land's ability to produce food in tropical regions.

Given Maue's long lead time in predicting today's heat blast, I reached out to him Monday afternoon for a chat on the role of human - driven climate change and the urbanization of the region in raising thermometers to new heights.

The authors of the study said the change could be temporary, given the short span of observations, but it matches a slight but steady warming trend in the affected ocean regions and also matches a pattern scientists have predicted would occur under human - caused global warming.

However, environmental advocates said they were alarmed to find evidence that species were being affected by climate change in the continental United States and not in distant Arctic regions where such issues were predicted to occur first.

The study predicted large - scale releases in the multi-gigaton range from the southern region of the East Coast methane clathrate store due both to changes in the Gulf Stream circulation and to warming bottom waters — both impacts set off by human - caused climate change.

While developed countries and regions have long been culprits for Earth's rising greenhouse gas emissions, Cornell researchers — balancing the role of aerosols along with carbons in the equation — now predict a time when developing countries will contribute more to climate change than advanced societies: 2030.

Current research combines the climate and chemistry changes in the GISS model to predict future stratospheric ozone amounts both over the polar regions and at lower latitudes.

And as a rapidly warming Arctic encourages more ship traffic through Canada's Northwest Passage and along other polar routes, the sooty emissions from passing freighters will significantly accelerate climate change in the region, according to a new Canadian - American study that, for the first time, predicts the potential impact of engine exhaust particles on the Arctic environment.

His research focusses on understanding and predicting climate variability and change in the polar regions, including the response of Arctic extreme weather to climate change.

While seemingly incongruous, scientists are predicting both more droughts and flooding for the southeastern United States, noting that the region has already experienced changes in the frequency, distribution, and intensity of precipitation, a trend that is expected to continue.

«Our results are in agreement with model forecasts, which predict that the frequency of tropical cyclones will decrease in the Australian region due to climate change,» Jordahna Haig of James Cook University, Australia told environmentalresearchweb.

Gaps in our understanding of climate response in the tropics and polar regions limit our ability to predict future climate change impacts in all areas.

Understanding variations between years in the CCS may help predict and manage changes in fisheries and climate of the region.

report that ocean sediment cores containing an «undisturbed history of the past» have been analyzed for variations in PP over timescales that include the Little Ice Age... they determined that during the LIA the ocean off Peru had «low PP, diatoms and fish,» but that «at the end of the LIA, this condition changed abruptly to the low subsurface oxygen, eutrophic upwelling ecosystem that today produces more fish than any region of the world's oceans... write that «in coastal environments, PP, diatoms and fish and their associated predators are predicted to decrease and the microbial food web to increase under global warming scenarios,» citing Ito et al..

Moreover, the faster - than - predicted change in global climate (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007) and the different available scenarios for climate change suggest an increase in aridity for the semi-arid regions of the globe and the Mediterranean region in the near fchange in global climate (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007) and the different available scenarios for climate change suggest an increase in aridity for the semi-arid regions of the globe and the Mediterranean region in the near fChange, 2007) and the different available scenarios for climate change suggest an increase in aridity for the semi-arid regions of the globe and the Mediterranean region in the near fchange suggest an increase in aridity for the semi-arid regions of the globe and the Mediterranean region in the near future.

Latest research by the Brookings Institution in the US predicts that climate change is going to result in average temperatures rising across the North African region by 3 °C by 2050.

It says several forecasts suggest that harvests will be reduced as a result of the higher air temperatures the region is now experiencing, even though climate change is predicted to result in the Sahel receiving more rain in future.

«We present a new modeling system that predicts both internal variability and externally forced changes and hence forecasts surface temperature with substantially improved skill throughout a decade, both globally and in many regions.

Climate scientists like James E. Hansen predict that methane clathrates in the permafrost regions will be released because of global warming, unleashing powerful feedback forces which may cause runaway climate change that can not be halted.

There is good reason to predict that climate change will cause devastation especially in the poor regions of the world, where population growth, poverty, the pollution of water and air, inequalities between classes and genders, AIDs epidemics and corrupt, authoritarian governments all overlap.

As for «supposedly caused», it is exactly the sort of drought that climate scientists have predicted for a generation would result from AGW, it is clearly linked to AGW - driven changes in weather patterns, it continues to worsen and spread as I write, and it is much like similar mega-droughts already affecting major agricultural regions all over the world.

Whilst largely unanticipated in the climate change impacts community, previous analyses have predicted a slowing in the overall circulation rate in tropical regions and, presumably, a reduction in averaged wind speed in those regions with greenhouse warming [Betts, 1998; Held and Soden, 2006; Vecchi et al., 2006].............

Might there be some way of using a version / variation of the Monte Carlo Method to evaluate how robust the predicted probabilities are to changes in the assumed «climate average» for the region?

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Stanford University say their comprehensive map of the region's climate 21,000 years ago is helping them test and improve climate models that can predict how rainfall patterns might change in the future.

«No one can predict the future, but if the region's past 900 years is any indication, and you factor in climate change, you're going to have a warmer situation that could mean the river will no longer be a sustainable water source for the tar sands,» he said.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted a significant loss of biodiversity in surrounding regions.

«Changes to mortgage eligibility, expansions of rent control, a non-resident speculation tax in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region and increasing interest rates, are all conspiring to make for a very complicated and difficult to predict housing market.

When asked about their outlook for average retail rents in their region over the next 12 months, nearly two thirds (67 percent) expect rents to increase, while 24 percent predict no change and 9 percent believe that rents will decline.