Sentences with phrase «rainfall in»

In any case, the odds are still in favor of getting above average rainfall in San Diego in March, due to the El Nino.

But an increase in heavy rainfall in some of these regions is also likely to bring with it many negative effects, such as a raised risk of flooding and the waterlogging of soils.

However, going by eyeball, there's very little meaningful difference between the 1900 - 1930 and 1990 - 2012 average rainfall in the worldbank's website.

An example could be the extremely weak rainfall in July and September observed in India in the year 2002, in which the rest of the season exhibited average rainfall (41).

The ones near the tropical Pacific are the most certain of all, such as above normal rainfall in Kiribati (and other central Pacific equatorial islands) and below normal rainfall in Indonesia.

Brysse et al. (2012) also found that the IPCC has tended to underestimate or failed to account for CO2 emissions, increased rainfall in already rainy areas, continental ice sheet melting, Arctic sea ice decline, and permafrost melting.

So Tom Quirk got the rainfall data and discovered that rainfall in Australia has a large effect on the temperatures recorded by the sensors five feet off the ground.

The study uses data from 1876 to the present to examine the correlation between solar cycles and the extreme rainfall in Australia.

In particular, record rainfall in August 2014 caused flooding in downtown Portland as well as $ 100,000 in damages in Freeport and $ 200,000 in Brunswick.

I've made a commitment at Google Plus to detail the implications of underestimated rainfall in terms of precipitation risk.

The report also predicts extreme rain events could pollute lakes and streams due to nutrient run - off, noting that a heavy rainfall in 2012 combined with a particularly warm year fueled a massive algae bloom in Lake Auburn.

They struggle to capture regional detail and precipitation; none can successfully forecast the eminently predictable daily rainfall in the Amazon, for instance.

At one point, Emanuel noted «Harvey's rainfall in Houston was «biblical» in the sense that it likely occurred around once since the Old Testament was written.»

The team calculated the average summer monsoon rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere between 1951 and 2005.

Professor Slingo emphasises the importance of having good information on rainfall in a world hungry for more food.

It would be more of a «miracle» if you got below average rainfall in March than above average rainfall.

There's going to be less rainfall in already arid regions, that's fairly certain.

Dean, Sam M., Suzanne Rosier, Trevor Carey - Smith and Peter A. Stott, 2013: The role of climate change in the two - day extreme rainfall in Golden Bay, New Zealand, December 2011 [in «Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective»].

The annual summer monsoon that drops rain onto East Asia, an area with about a billion people, has shifted dramatically in the distant past, at times moving northward by as much as 400 kilometers and doubling rainfall in that northern reach.

But even without the forest fires, the fact that the rainfall in decreased would change NPP (net primary production), and the ratio of NPP to GPP (gross primary production).

As soon as the ITCZ arrived it led to record - high rainfall in many parts of Australia and devastating floods in Queensland.

The pattern of rainfall in the spring is characteristic of La Niña although the extreme nature of the changes is not.

Physical features of this El Nino that MIGHT be relevant to this deviation from expectation are (1) the area of strongly above - average rainfall in the tropical Pacific Ocean does not extend as far eastward, toward the coast of South America, as it has in other strong El Nino events, such as 1997 - 98 and 1982 - 83.

U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend LINK WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.

For example, in my country we've had problems with extreme rainfall in the past few years, where a weeks worth of rain falls in an hour (or something along those lines).

The lack of rainfall in October and November came as a blow to farmers because September — just before the planting season — was tantalizingly wet.

Scientists expect more intense storms to occur in the Midwest throughout the year, and more precipitation to fall in winter and spring.4 If our carbon emissions continue to rise at current rates, spring rainfall in Jefferson City is projected to increase 25 percent or more by the end of this century.9, 10

According to FAO figures we looked up, daily average rainfall in the region is between 4.7 mm / day for Belize and 8.0 mm / day for Costa Rica and Panama (the region becomes wetter moving towards the equator).]

In the case of clouds, for example, this means developing a computer routine that converts large - scale factors affecting clouds (such as moisture levels) into large - scale quantities affected by clouds (such as total rainfall in a grid - box) without ever specifying exactly where the clouds are or what they look like.

People affected by an extreme weather event (e.g., the extremely hot summer in Europe in 2003, or the heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India in July 2005) often ask whether human influences on the climate are responsible for the event.

In fact, this is a similar argument to the one I made on the Browning Australia thread: if by omission of one data «point» — one proxy in this case, one year's rainfall in the Browning Australia thread — you drastically change the conclusion, then your method can not be robust.

The Baltic states and Scandinavia could experience higher rainfall in a warmer world.

He published some papers on rainfall in the 1960s, he certainty has not published anything on radiative transfer, carbon cycles, climate science or any of the subjects on his blog in which you claim he is an expert.

And I discovered (as it seems did proust) that the only significant thing it showed was that the 1970's were likely an excellent year for rainfall in Australia.

Drying in coastal WA, Queensland and Tasmania, increases in rainfall in Northern WA (which doesn't need it) and inland WA (where it is of no economic use).

For example, despite the 5 - year drought that was recently busted in Oklahoma, most of that state has an upward trend in summer rainfall, further indicating the feast or famine that can come with rainfall in the Plains.

John, You say that the BoM map of the trend in rainfall in southeastern Australia since 1970 «demonstrates how much drier the climate has become over the period in which warming has been observed.»

Research at Churchill, Manitoba showed the major predictors of growth were rainfall in the Fall of the preceding year and winter snow amount.

The stronger trade winds during La Nina do not extend past 130E on average, and are met over the western Pacific by stronger than normal westerlies coming from the east Indian Ocean, causing strong convergence and above - normal rainfall in the western Pacific and around the Maritime Continent.

Since 1970 we have seen exactly what global warming models predict — more rainfall in the North - West and some desert areas and less in the major agricultural regions.

While rainfall in the region is consistent with the emerging El Niño, the unprecedented amounts suggest a possible climate change signal, where a warming atmosphere becomes more saturated with water vapor and capable of previously unimagined downpours.

The CSIRO projections are for an INCREASE of 1.5 % (low global warming scenario) and 3.5 % (high warming scenario) in rainfall in summer and autumn; and for a DECREASE of 3 % (low global warming scenario) and 7.5 % (high global warming scenario) in winter and spring.

The CSIRO projections are for no change in rainfall in the summer, both in the low and the high global warming scenarios.

As regards your first point, I don't think it's appropriate to try and correlate rainfall in SE Australia with temperature in the same area.

The study revealed that the intensity of rainfall in wet spells during 1981 - 2011 was significantly higher than during 1950 - 1980.

My calculations for Victoria from the BoM data show a larger reduction in rainfall in summer (14 %) than in average annual rainfall (13 %) in the more recent period.

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

Fires in the West, droughts in the Southwest, melting snowpack in the Northwest, flooding and heavy rainfall in the Northeast, the much stronger coastal storms and hurricanes that we've seen in the Gulf: we've gotten to the point where we can all point to something that's happening and say: «This is what climate change is doing to our region.»

JQ on Ian Castles said: «I donâ $ ™ t think itâ $ ™ s appropriate to try and correlate rainfall in SE Australia with temperature in the same area.»

Iâ $ ™ ve now looked at the observed rainfall in SW Australia, using the same successive 11 - year periods as I used above for NSW and Vic.