Sentences with phrase «rainfall pattern»

We can't measure the evaporation rate or rainfall pattern, but we are allowed to look at the number of tourists who stay in nearby hotels, some of whom state if they have fishermen or windsurfers staying, and so one can use these as proxies for sunlight / rainfall patterns (CO2 partitioning into temperature dependent aquatic bodies).

Rigorous scientific analysis has found that the extreme rainfall that caused a Texas flooding in May of 2015, for example, was caused by a fairly typical rainfall pattern associated with that year's El Niño, a naturally occurring climate cycle, which had been supercharged by human - made climate change.

It becomes to be evident in small farms of India, due to rainfall pattern changes: http://www.consulclima.com/news-about-climate-change/climate-change-effects-on-agriculture-start-becoming-evident-to-indian-small-farmers/

The El Niño - related cloudiness and rainfall pattern extended farther east along the equator in 1998, stretching all the way to the South American coast.

After reading the rainfall pattern of the last 16 years, the scientists [continue reading...]

And those predictions didn't take changes in rainfall pattern with climate into account.

Brawn's team looked at the relationship between population growth rates and the length of the dry season during those 33 years, then simulated another 50 years with an average of a 10 percent change in the rainfall pattern in Panama's dry season.

He found that the pattern of rainfall predicted by the model closely resembles the rainfall pattern of recent summers.

Mr. Ayariga predicted good harvest due to the rainfall pattern but stressed that the rice project is not dependent on rainfall alone but water conservation.

This advice comes at a time when farmers across the country are complaining of huge yield losses as a result of poor rainfall patterns this year.

Munkaila Jawad, the Municipal Director of MoFA, said climate change has shortened rainfall patterns, caused bush fires, affected forest reserves and has...

She uses this knowledge of plants, and specifically their leaf waxes, to document past changes in plant life and rainfall patterns, including studies on the expansion of grasslands in Africa and the revegetation of Antarctica during a prior warming event.

The results indicate that in present and past the Atlantic Ocean surface currents correlate with rainfall patterns in the Western Hemisphere.

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

In Tanzania more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns are forcing subsistence farmers to adapt

But there is huge uncertainty about how rainfall patterns will change.

The drinking water for 500,000 people in the region comes from mountain snowmelt, McAdams said, and rainfall patterns are changing.

Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen

«If somebody deployed a sulfur layer in the atmosphere, that could have catastrophic outcomes,» like changing rainfall patterns over India that farmers rely on, adds Caldeira, who also served on the committee.

The temperature changes seem small — usually 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius — but they can alter rainfall patterns all over the world.

The scientists warn that climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns — with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.

About 70 per cent of forest plant species seem to live within a slim safety margin of survival in the face of drought and changing rainfall patterns.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

By analyzing the leaf wax from ancient marine sediments, the team determined the region's past rainfall patterns and also gathered clues about what types of plants were growing.

Rainfall patterns in the Sahara during the 6,000 - year «Green Sahara» period have been pinpointed by analyzing marine sediments, according to new research.

The tropical rain band that encircles Earth just north of the equator affects rainfall patterns worldwide.

Shifting rainfall patterns may send 10 to 40 percent more water filled with dissolved bits of organic debris into many coastal areas by 2100.

Other bodies, such as the European Environment Agency, have said it is likely that rising temperatures in Europe will change rainfall patterns, leading to more frequent and heavy floods in many regions.

Climate change may cause major changes in rainfall patterns and river flows in the coming decades, bringing more pressure for water - transfer schemes.

As the planet continues to warm, rainfall patterns around the globe will shift — and some parts of the United States will see their flood risks rise.

If changing temperatures and rainfall patterns kill off coffee, will that finally spur us into action?

Wrestling with natural variability Scientists have looked for these changes in rainfall patterns, but they are often difficult to distinguish because there is so much natural variability in precipitation.

So, a thirsty tree growing in a tropical forest and one in a temperate forest, such as those we find throughout Europe, will have largely the same response to drought and will inevitably suffer as a result of rising temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns on Earth.»

The reason is that global warming is likely to increase droughts and change rainfall patterns, so water availability becomes even more critical than before.

Crop yields and rainfall patterns and amounts are different.

Since trends in convective rainfall are not easily detected in daily rainfall records, or well - simulated by global or regional climate models, the researchers created a new tool to assess the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns and trends in dryland areas.

This has important implications for understanding and predicting changes in rainfall patterns over large populations across the Asia and Oceania regions.

Rainfall patterns are expected to change, too.

This study was the first to show that climate change was disrupting the temporal rainfall patterns within storms themselves.

Most urban centres have older stormwater infrastructure designed to handle rainfall patterns of the past, which are no longer sufficient.

Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the study includes maps showing where lemurs are likely to seek refuge as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change across the 225,000 - square - mile island over the next 65 years.

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

Changes in rainfall patterns that are already being observed in the tropics — a result of forest clearing and climate change — will likely remake Panama's tropical forests.

Currently, Pacific sea surface temperatures have risen as an El Niño event develops, a climate phenomenon that alters rainfall patterns around the globe.

However, the simulations indicate that the sea - ice driven precipitation changes resemble the global rainfall patterns observed during that drought, leaving the possibility that Arctic sea - ice loss could have played a role in the recent drought.

It was amazing to see how our results, when combined with work of many other research groups and compared to the newest generation of climate models, revealed a consistent story about how rainfall patterns were altered in the past.»

Models of climate change can predict and explain shifting rainfall patterns globally, says a new study.

Climate change explains shifting rainfall patterns: wet places getting wetter and dry places drier

Two basic theories have been advanced to explain the dramatically different rainfall patterns of this period: