Sentences with phrase «rainfall from»

«It is likely that the frequency of heavy precipitation or the proportion of total rainfall from heavy falls will increase in the 21st Century over many areas of the globe...

The map is part of a broader effort to establish a hazards monitoring system that combines satellite observations of rainfall from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission with an assessment of the underlying susceptibility of terrain.

For every rise of 1 degree Celsius (most of it man - made) in surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, rainfall from a tropical storm increases 6 to 18 percent and wind speeds of the strongest hurricanes increase by up to 8 percent.

Rainfall from GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) showed that Pam was dropping rain at a rate of 133.5 mm (5.26 inches) per hour.

«We do know why inflows are so low and why various ecosystems of the Murray - Darling are in crisis: the system is over-allocated and has experienced a growth in groundwater extraction and in the number of farm dams preventing rainfall from becoming run - off.

The frequency of heavy precipitation events (or proportion of total rainfall from heavy falls) will be very likely to increase over most areas during the 21st century, with consequences for the risk of rain - generated floods.

Summary: Soon and his colleagues ran computer simulations to study long - term patterns in rainfall from monsoons over the past 1,000 years.

Matrosov S. Y., A. Battaglia and P. Rodriguez (December 2008): Effects of Multiple Scattering on Attenuation - Based Retrievals of Stratiform Rainfall from CloudSat.

Summary: The study found that unusually dry periods of little rainfall from India's summer monsoons mostly occurred during periods of lower solar intensity.

The presence of the longer - term effects on Australian rainfall from oceanic shifts, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), make the analysis of this situation, and the teasing out of the AGW influence, a complex matter.

People might be interested in seeing the UK Annual Average rainfall from 1910 to 2013.

Scientists «exclude [d] rainfall from a 100 - meter - by -100-meter (1 hectare) plot of rainforest» by covering the ground with plastic sheet gutters.

We also predict that rainfall from hurricanes will go up as the climate warms.

And, by another co-incidence, rainfall from a typical hurricane is comparable to global human freshwater consumption.

The Amazon rainforest recycles rainfall from the coastal regions to the continental interior, ensuring an adequate water supply for agriculture not only in Brazil's west and southwest but also in Paraguay and northern Argentina.

(The state receives the vast majority of its rainfall from November to March.)

NASA eyes Pineapple Express soaking California — video follows From the NASA / GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER NASA has estimated rainfall from the Pineapple Express over the coastal regions southwestern Oregon and northern California from the series of storms in February, 2017.

The fact remains that there is 4 percent more water vapor — and associated additional moist energy — available both to power individual storms and to produce intense rainfall from them.

Tessa R. Vance, Tas D. van Ommen, Mark A. J. Curran, Chris T. Plummer, and Andrew D. Moy, 2013, A Millennial Proxy Record of ENSO and Eastern Australian Rainfall from the Law Dome Ice Core, East Antarctica, Journal of Climate 2013 26:3, 710 - 725, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00003.1, AMS

The spatial extent, intensity and location of atmospheric river (AR) landfall are well reproduced by the RCMs, as is the fraction of winter rainfall from AR days.

For example, we now know that the rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was 15 percent more intense and three times as likely to occur due to human - induced climate change.

Rainfall from cyclones contains relatively little heavy oxygen so analysing the oxygen isotope ratio of calcite in stalagmites can reveal the extent of cyclone activity.

Note the string of little funnels that take rainfall from the roof down to the ground, on the left, presumably with little splashing (unless the rain was heavy?)

R, van Ommen, T.D., Curran, M. A. J., Plummer, C. T. and Moy, AD, 2012, A Millennial Proxy Record of ENSO and Eastern Australian Rainfall from the Law Dome Ice Core, East Antarctica, Journal of Climate, 26, (3) pp. 710 — 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00003.1

This study investigates the variability of convective and stratiform rainfall from 8 yr (1998â $ «2005) of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements, focusing on seasonal diurnal variability.

Rainfall from resolved rather than parameterized processes better represents the present ‐ day and climate change response of moderate rates in the community atmosphere model.

During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

WHEREAS Statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and

Francis Zwiers and colleagues studied rainfall from 1951 to 1999 in Northern Hemisphere land areas, including North America and Eurasia (including India).

It describes his research linking a warming Indian Ocean — when combined with La Niña conditions — with reductions in crucial rainfall from March to June in East Africa.

Note both linked studies were done in areas (the Yucatan, and Georgia) that normally receive plenty of rainfall from long - lived thunderstorms, sometimes severe, and often with some amount of tropical moisture.

Abstract: Southeastern Australia (SEA) has suffered from 10 years of low rainfall from 1997 to 2006.

So it captured extreme inland rainfall from tropical systems (as in this system, Irene, Floyd, and Vermont's epic 1927 gullywasher) as well as nor - easters and any other rare events.

The sand dunes distinct break is dependent on the silt brought down by rainfall from the Sigatoka river mouth transforming the waves to break on the dunes.

The park experiences heavy rainfall from September to May with evening fog common throughout the summer months.

This year's record - breaking wet season coupled with significant rainfall from Hurricane Irma created extremely high water levels in the Central Everglades.

Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey has encumbered the fourth - largest city in the US, and new concerns are mounting from ongoing rain and flood damage.

If autumn leaf fall and roof detritus is allowed to accumulate in gutters, the rainfall from late autumn storms can cause them to overflow and drains to become blocked.

The rainfall from the models was fed into a hydrological model for the Thames and then combined with flood risk maps.

* «Attribution of Extreme Rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017» by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh et al. published in Environmental Research Letters on Wednesday 13 December 2017.

The team charted trends in rainfall from 1956 to 2005 in eastern China, which has 162 weather stations that provided complete data collected over the entire 50 years.

«The unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey is heavily influenced by blocking area of high pressure preventing the system from moving inland, concentrating the rainfall nearer the coast.

Copious rainfall from the typhoon increased the weight of tephra accumulations and the destruction they caused.

The team found that warming had increased the chances of such extreme rainfall from a storm like Desmond in the region by about 40 percent, with a full range of between 5 and 80 percent.

Much of Japan received heavy rainfall from Typhoons Nakri and Halong during the first half of the month.

«Adaptation to urban - induced climate change depends on specific geographic factors,» Georgescu adds, noting that white, reflective cool roofs work well in California, but could reduce rainfall from Florida up the U.S. east coast, for example.

Changes in fall - winter rainfall from observations (top panel) as compared to model simulation of the past century (middle panel), and a model projection of the middle of the 21st century.

The study's authors expected about a 6 percent increase in rainfall from Hurricane Harvey because of warming in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.