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The model suggests that while summer rainfall increases in northwest Europe, Mediterranean regions will receive less rain.

Rainfall increases in Australia, Indonesia, China, Africa and the Middle East — the atmosphere cools.

Not exact matches

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

With the rainfall in 2016 there was increased scope to improve the health and resilience of aquatic ecosystems using a top up of Commonwealth environmental water within the Namoi River Valley.

«If rainfall across the Murray Darling Basin reduces over summer, allocation prices are likely to increase,» Mr Delves says, «However if a wet summer is experienced, then we are in for continued low volumes of allocation trade and lower prices.»

Along with Niagara County, Orleans and Monroe counties are also severely affected by the rising water levels along the shoreline, caused by an increased amount of rainfall this season along with the controversial Plan 2014, an international agreement between the United States and Canada to regulate the water levels in Lake Ontario.

Climate patterns that bring extra rainfall to the region don't account for the dramatic increase in flood size, the team found.

Increases in average temperature and rainfall were associated in Zanzibar with higher numbers of cholera cases within a definite time period.

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.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

More extreme rainfall and rising sea levels will increase the frequency of devastating floods like those that hit Queensland in 2011.

«Our new data however, contrasts with sub-Saharan Africa and demonstrates that the South African climate responded in the opposite direction, with increasing rainfall, that can be associated with a globally occurring southward shift of the tropical monsoon belt.»

Areas of increased rainfall are shown in green, with darker colors representing a greater increase.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

The three studies, discussed in a separate news conference December 13, found that human influence probably increased the hurricane's total rainfall, by anywhere from at least 15 percent to at least 19 percent.

Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the global climate models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers.

In fact, increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere — now roughly 392 parts per million and rising — may be fertilizing the rainforest and preventing even greater impacts from reduced rainfall, although this question, Davidson and his colleagues wrote in the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.&raquIn fact, increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere — now roughly 392 parts per million and rising — may be fertilizing the rainforest and preventing even greater impacts from reduced rainfall, although this question, Davidson and his colleagues wrote in the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.&raquin the atmosphere — now roughly 392 parts per million and rising — may be fertilizing the rainforest and preventing even greater impacts from reduced rainfall, although this question, Davidson and his colleagues wrote in the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.&raquin the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.»

Our study therefore showed that the main factor driving increased future phosphorus losses was the projected increase in winter rainfall.»

And climate change has led to more water vapor in the atmosphere, which increases rainfall totals.

There were some increases in drought intensity as a result of increased heat but the weak reduction in rainfall meant only a slight increase in the frequency of droughts was detected.

In contrast, both rural and urban dry environments experience similar temperature increases, and both have less annual rainfall than their eastern and southeastern counterparts.

The rise in temperature will be accompanied by erratic rainfall and increasing drought, the likes of which have already been seen in the country, according to the report.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from the El Niño, along with a devastated infrastructure and an influx of people into larger cities, likely caused the spike in Zika cases, Sorensen said.

Sea surface temperatures in the Central Pacific and North Atlantic were cooler than normal, which lead to increased rainfall across the southern Amazon in the months preceding the fire season.

An increase in heavy rainfall is already being seen throughout the U.S..

Work by researchers from Taiwan and China found that the increase in rainfall intensity over the past three decades has been an entire order of magnitude greater...

With no increase in the region's rainfall, the change «can only come from melting permafrost and glaciers.»

«If this rainfall change was caused simply by a warmer atmosphere holding more moisture, we would have expected an increase in the average rainfall when each system, organised or disorganised, occurs,» said Dr Tan

Increasing rainfall in certain parts of the tropics, colloquially described as the wet get wetter and warm get wetter, has long been a projection of climate change.

Joint research from the Monash branch of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) and NASA published in Nature found even though other types of rainfall has decreased in frequency and the total number of thunderstorms remained the same, the increase in big storms had elevated total rainfall.

Researchers expected to find a 6 percent increase in Hurricane Harvey rainfall totals, but instead found that climate change increased those totals by at least 19 percent and as much as 38 percent.

The research has also contributed to answering the important question whether the increase in rainfall observed in the tropics was simply caused by the fact of a warmer atmosphere or whether the underlying circulation in that region had changed.

Similarly, in some countries in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Greece) the initial increase in impacts at 1.5 °C turns into more uncertain projections for higher warming levels, due to a substantial reduction in annual rainfall.

The models showed a general increase in extreme rainfall but the global warming signal was not strong enough yet to rise above the expected natural variation.

Put bluntly: if Pakistan's climate warms in the future, rainfall will increase.

On the other hand, climate change scenarios estimate that the soil loss rates may increase by 10 - 15 % by 2050 due to an analogous increase of rainfall - induced erosion in Europe.

The research team found that most of the change was because of alterations in rainfall that are expected to occur across the area, not because of increases in temperature.

Another study published online today in the journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL) directly attributes the rainfall increase to human - caused climate change.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

He attributes the data from the other studies that points to glacial growth more to other influences on the calculations — such as an increase in rainfall.

Simulating natural and humanmade climate drivers, scientists showed that the decline in rainfall is primarily a response to humanmade increases in greenhouse gases as well as a thinning of the ozone caused by humanmade aerosol emissions.

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

Dust that absorbed heat more efficiently was linked with increases in monsoon rainfall.

Southern Australia's decline in rainfall began around 1970 and has increased over the last four decades.

For the climate - related causes of food shocks, the researchers analyzed rainfall, temperature and — importantly — the international prices of food, including sudden increases in prices.

So looking for both increased rainfall in wet areas and a shift in storm tracks away from the equator helped the researchers separate the signal of climate change from the noise of natural variability.

Increased rainfall could mean more vegetation and therefore less soil exposed to wind erosion in the Sahel.