Sentences with phrase «rainfall intensity patterns»

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However, due to changing rainfall, storm, and drought patterns and intensities, an onslaught from coffee rust — a fungus that decimates coffee plants — and a lack of rural extension services, income from coffee is usually not enough.

The effects of circulation change in the North Atlantic are different to (potentially solar - driven) rainfall variability in the sub-tropics and are different again from the impacts of changing frequency and intensity in El Nino patterns.

Also, along with warmer weather, changes in the pattern and intensity of rainfall are already occuring.

This event is associated with cold and dry conditions increasing with latitude in the North, temperature and precipitation influences on tropical and boreal wetlands, Siberian - like winters in much of the North Atlantic, weakening of monsoon intensity, and southward displacement of tropical rainfall patterns.

In summary, in contrast with the simulations of extreme temperature by climate models, extreme precipitation is difficult to reproduce, especially for the intensities and patterns of heavy rainfall which are heavily affected by the local scale (see Chapter 10).