Sentences with phrase «rain patterns»

In its turn, major deforestation could then alter the regional climate, particularly rain patterns, bringing drought.

That's not a huge number, but, depending on how it effects other things like rain patterns, it could prove highly disruptive.

In the south, erratic rain patterns are causing the coffee crop to fruit twice and sometimes three times, resulting in inferior beans.

Some changes in rain patterns also stem from development itself.

Clear - cutting of forests is a catastrophy and leads to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, changing rain patterns as well as affects large climatic systems such as the El Nino in the Pacific.

The impacts of El Niño take a while to propagate around the globe, and people may continue to see effects of El Niño associated with shifted rain patterns such as droughts, floods and fires.

But the link does state that during La Niñas, «The prevailing rain pattern also shifts farther west than normal.»

Dr. Ramanathan, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, has led chemical and climatic studies of «brown clouds» of pollution blanketing much of South Asia, which substantially warm the regional climate, alter rain patterns and contribute to public health problems.

With the effect of climate change, the irrigation dam comes in handy to enable citizens who are predominantly farmers to cultivate crops all year round without depending on the unregularly rain pattern.

When rain patterns change and temperatures rise, a number of species will feel pressure to migrate, but will face obstacles beyond geography and development.

Weather forecasters use total rainfall figures to predict floods, and climatologists use the estimates to gauge how rain patterns are changing with climate change.

This winter, areas across the globe experienced a shift in rain patterns due to the natural weather phenomenon known as El Niño.

When the scientists corrected for this La Niña effect on rain patterns in the past decade, they found that the slowdown in sea - level rise disappeared and fell in line with the 1994 - 2002 pace, coming to about 3.3 millimeters a year.

The ultimate farce is to argue that increased CO2 will improve yields without considering rain patterns (whose importance you're aware of in Brazil), biological agents, or, as you mentioned, plain temperature.

Are you saying that the loss of these aerosol injections will create such as large, sudden increase in GW that they will get the same kind of disruptions in rain patterns anyway?

Republica: Monsoon rain patterns in South Asia including Nepal are fast changing.

Explosive volcanoes such as Indonesia's Merapi (erupting here in 2006) have the potential to shift rain patterns Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Let's look back on the past few months, to see how much February — April global temperature and rain patterns reflected those expected (temperature, rain) during La Niña!

More volatile weather patterns makes planning crop rotations difficult; higher concentration of rain patterns, whether dry or wet spells, means that fields either dry out or wash away — and farmers have little indication of which pattern will come when.

Cooling a small region by 0.5 ˚C could dramatically change rain patterns.

Depicting life in a not - too - distant future shaped by already present warming trends, the report warns that even 20 to 30 years from now, shifting rain patterns could leave some areas under water and others without enough water for drinking, irrigation or power generation.

-- FOOD: Global food prices will rise between 3 and 84 percent by 2050 because of warmer temperatures and changes in rain patterns.

Additional studies are needed to fully appreciate soot's role in global warming and changing rain patterns, both in China and in other regions.

«Although two degrees may not sound like a lot, the resulting deviation in temperature and rain patterns will have a significant effect on climate zones,» he adds.

«They're constantly following the rain patterns,» explains Scott Wilbor, conservation science director for the Sky Islands Alliance, a Tucson - based group.

The coupling between ocean and atmosphere isn't following the usual script, and the typical shifts in rain patterns haven't emerged.

However, if the rain patterns there shift as climatologists predict, torrential rains and longer - lasting floods could dramatically change the habitat, making it unsuitable for this and other monkey species.

There have been some bursts of westerlies and associated shifts in rain patterns, but the signs just haven't been strong enough to warrant an official declaration yet.

The vertical motion in the atmospheric plays a role in moving heat and moisture to greater heights, and influences both rain patterns and the OLR.

Although the direct heat increase is not enough to cause much climate change, the indirect influence of solar activity on cloud cover, wind and rain patterns may be large enough to have an important impact.

Diseases such as dengue can now be found in more countries, the rain patterns are changing and there are key infrastructure works at risk because of the rise of the sea level.

Changing rain patterns and rising temperatures could put crops in the Midwest at risk.

Climate change making droughts in Australia worse as rain patterns shift.