Sentences with phrase «rainfall event»

It's worth posting that map of extreme rainfall events again.

As both evaporation rates and heavy rainfall events increase in a warming world, this lends itself to bigger variations in precipitation.

So to, are the more intense rainfall events likely to result from climate change — and note that these can occur in the same places as droughts.

Over the last three decades, the number of record - breaking rainfall events globally has significantly increased, and the fingerprint of global warming has been documented in this pattern.

If this can be achieved it should provide environmental benefits across the city and contribute to green infrastructure, particularly as climate change impacts like urban heating and high rainfall events increase.

In the last year of the period the team studied, there were 26 % more record - breaking daily rainfall events globally.

In their original work, the N, Q emissions at the peak rainfall event were not obtained for deep placement of N fertilizer, because of a sampling error.

The water holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7 % per °C of warming, which in turn raises the expectation of more intense extreme rainfall events.

This, coupled with an increase in average rainfall as well as heavy rainfall events, has resulted in recurrent flooding and related damages to infrastructure, utility supply and the urban economy.

That means whenever we have heavy (and prolonged) rainfall events in the future, we can expect them to be more intense.

Changes in extreme episodes included positive trends in warm nights, and a positive tendency for intense rainfall events and consecutive dry days.

In marked contrast, some regions have experienced significantly fewer record - breaking daily rainfall events.

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Climate change is playing a role in extreme rainfall events like the one on Tuesday.

These factors point to a need for planners to account for such rainfall events as housing and infrastructure development occurs in this region, and for the possibility that the intensity and frequency of such events might change in the future as the climate continues to warm.

Once done, I hope to be able to offer an approach which will better predict the recurrence time of rare rainfall events in the the face of increasing temperatures.

It concluded that Europe and the UK is «very likely» to see more heavy rainfall events by the end of the century.

The role of global warming in unusually large rainfall events in countries from the United Kingdom to China has been hotly debated.

«This suggests that unexpected above average rainfall events in the Ohio and Mississippi River basins will continue to increase the frequency of extreme flooding events on these Great Rivers.»

Potentially more worrying, the 2015/2016 floods appear to be part of a trend over recent decades for more frequent extreme winter rainfall events.

Moreover, rising global average temperatures lead to longer pollen seasons in many places and — when combined with stronger rainfall events, flooding, and higher humidity — create the perfect environment for mold to flourish.

Furthermore, recent research has shown how there has been a clear pattern of increased extreme rainfall events over parts of the UK — particularly Scotland.

NASA in America, hardly a radical source, confirms we can expect more extreme rainfall events due to climate change.

They included a wide range of problems: severe and unprecedented droughts affecting agriculture in some areas and severely inflating global food prices and also making conditions more favourable for wildfires; in other areas, increases in extreme rainfall events leading to widespread inundation, destruction of crops, casualties and property loss / damage.

Climate change could mean England is in for more such extreme rainfall events because of increasing moisture in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric weather patterns, a new study detailed online Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds.

One implication of the authors» findings is that it will be some time before it will be possible to make credible projections of sub-daily rainfall events.

To the extent that the Levi distribution or close relatives actually characterize rainfall events it suggests that some rare events will be truely exceptional, so exceptional that perhaps for reasons of physical limitations one should instead consider a truncated version.

Increased frequency of 1.2 mm summer rainfall events reduced moss cover from ~ 25 % of total surface cover to < 2 % after only one growing season, whereas increased temperature had no effect.

Texas is an area where Gulf Tropical Storms and hurricanes often stall for days, and 6 of the heaviest tropical rainfall events for the U.S. have occurred in Texas.

«The starting point for understanding risk of high rainfall events is always a comprehensive analysis of previous records.

It's challenging to make direct comparisons between extreme rainfall events since their weather systems (e.g., hurricanes, thunderstorms) behave differently, so scientists draw on several benchmarks depending on the situation.

We need one good rainfall event.»

«Cattle prices have exploded since recent widespread rainfall events and optimism from the market is following suit,» Mr Cooper said.

While Houston's yearly risk of experiencing a 500 - millimeter rainfall event was around 1 in 2,000 at the end of the last century, Emanuel found the city's annual odds will increase significantly, to one in 100 by the end of this century.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

Causative factors include decayed infrastructure; facility malfunctions; or heavy rainfall events which overwhelm systems using combined sewers and stormwater drains (known as combined sewer overflows).

They will do this by increased evaporation and coastal rainfall events as opposed to storing the heat in surface colloidals, reaching a BREAK point and setting off fierce hurricanes.

The NOAA satellite data are showing the lower 2008 heat ranges are in line with more non catastropic rainfall events.

However, N2O emissions from deep placement of N were obtained after other rainfall events, all indicating that deep placement reduced N2O emissions from zero till to levels as low as from N fertilizer incorporated in the surface layer in conventional tillage.

This mode of intra-annual tropical atmospheric variability is strongly associated with California rainfall events when its active phase shifts eastward, as is currently being suggested by dynamical model forecasts.