Sentences with phrase «produce low precipitation»

At the seasonal scale, products that merge satellite and gauge measurements produce low precipitation estimates whereas reanalysis products produce high estimates.

Not exact matches

«Warming in California has made it more probable that when a low precipitation year occurs, it occurs in warm conditions and is more likely to produce severe drought,» said lead study author Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford.

In general, clouds with more ice, and thus lower brightness temperatures, are more likely to produce lightning and to have moderate to strong updrafts and precipitation.

Only if you assume that there is not a corresponding increase in cloud condensation and precipitation can you ignore that: it implies that a 3.7 W / m ^ 2 increase produces a lower temp increase at 289K than at 288K.

For example, ours is an implicit approach that analyzes the temperature and precipitation conditions that have historically occurred with low PMDI years, but does not explicitly explore the physical processes that produce drought.