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.
Not exact matches
Sebastian said focusing on 100 - year
events is also problematic
because short, intense
rainfall events that don't meet the 100 - year threshold can still cause serious flooding.
The new research confirms heavy
rainfall events are increasing across the Gulf Coast region
because of human interference with the climate system.
«Tasmania would have been somewhat shielded from the warmer, drier climate
because of its higher
rainfall but it appears that this population was also affected by the El Niño
event before starting to recover.»
«When you take a very, very rare, extreme
rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts
because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare
events,» Emanuel says.
But TC
events nonetheless leave a clear oxygen - 18
event,
because ordinary thunderstorms, even if long - lived or severe, do not produce low oxygen - 18
rainfall.
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.
Because droughts progress over years, it takes a prolonged period of
rainfall or a massive
rainfall event to break them.
Because of the substantial under - catch of precipitation gauges during solid precipitation, frequent light
rainfall events, or windy conditions, the true precipitation in the Arctic is more than 50 % higher than the measured values (Førland and Hanssen - Bauer, 2000).