Sentences with phrase «rainfall forecasting by»

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It uses actual rainfall data, assembled within seconds of the rain falling, backed up by information from local radar on where the rain is moving, to provide flood forecasts within five minutes.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

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.

The forecasts have been corroborated by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which in August 2015 predicted El Nino would prevail from October to December, resulting in below - average rainfall for parts of the Southern African region.

But, irrespective or the rarity / commonality of the rainfall, it was forecast by ECMWF 5 - 10 days in advance, sufficient time to warn and get people and property out of harms way.

The distributions of temperature and rainfall provided by ensemble simulations (typically 40 - 50 for each forecast) often do not even bound the extreme events and the ensemble mean is biased towards a climatological mean and does not capture extreme events.