Sentences with phrase «rainfall patterns»

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.

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

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

Cloud formation can affect rainfall patterns and alter climate by changing how much sunlight clouds reflect to space.

A slowdown in circulation would affect many parts of the world by disrupting global rainfall patterns.

Each time a switch occurs, the changes to ocean and atmospheric circulation affect temperature and rainfall patterns across the globe.

The subject of more questioning is the likely climate change, such as rainfall patterns, that increased temperatures will cause.

If tropical rainfall patterns shift, ecosystems like rainforests could be hugely impacted.

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

My research looks at how much we can expect greenhouse gases to warm the earth this century and what that means for rainfall patterns worldwide.

This is a value based on charts of rainfall patterns for the area.

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

By 2020, the local climate will be consistently hotter, and the local rainfall patterns could alter.

Already, research has shown that habitat destruction has altered seasonal rainfall patterns in parts of the world.

To figure out the region's ancient rainfall patterns from the sediment core, the researchers analyzed the ancient leaf wax that had blown into the ocean from terrestrial plants.

Such drying poses a risk to inhabitants of these regions who are accustomed to established rainfall patterns.

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.

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

The procedure is more straightforward for heat extremes than for complex events like storms and weird rainfall patterns.

But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall patterns less predictable, these gains are under threat.

Indeed, evidence for a human «fingerprint» on continental - scale rainfall patterns is already emerging.

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

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

It moves the jet streams, changes storm tracks, affects rainfall patterns, and of course increases UV radiation at ground level.

Critics warn that such a scheme might also alter rainfall patterns, damage the planet's ozone layer or have other unexpected effects.

This could lead to all sorts of gruesome side effects, such as messing up global rainfall patterns.

We will have to deal with toxic landscapes, a warming climate, shifting rainfall patterns and the emergence of new diseases.

Also, temperature anomalies like those in the figure at the top do influence tropical rainfall patterns.

Researchers have been doing detection - and - attribution studies on well - understood, well - documented phenomena such as temperature changes and rainfall patterns for more than a decade.

«These findings show that climate change can have dramatic effects on human societies and highlight the necessity to understand the effect of global warming on rainfall patterns in China and all over the world,» the authors write.

Varying rainfall patterns change soil moisture, which in turn affects yield.

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

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

A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn affect regional rainfall patterns including the Indian monsoon.

Forests are the only carbon capture and storage «technology» we have in our grasp that is safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects — from regulating rainfall patterns to providing livelihoods to indigenous communities.»

Prices of vegetables have shot up in the Sunyani Municipality due to erratic rainfall pattern in the Brong - Ahafo Region, a...

«Time when Southwest was wet and Northwest was dry aids efforts to predict future rainfall patterns.»

With a seasonal shift in temperature patterns, it is worth considering seasonal rainfall patterns at the same Perth weather stations.

The pilot study, published today in «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,» sheds light on the climate system of a region whose rainfall patterns have a major impact on global climate.

More information is available on the impact of the IOD on Australian rainfall patterns.

Some of the predicted impacts of climate change include: increased variability in both monsoon and winter rainfall patterns; increases in average temperatures, with warmer winters; increased salinity in coastal areas; weakening ecosystems; the recession of glaciers in the Himalayas; and increased frequency and / or severity of extreme weather events (floods, cyclones, and droughts).

This mechanism leads to worsened drought even if rainfall patterns are unchanged.

Walsh says he's impressed by a study published last week in Science Advances, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on how a warming atmosphere that's able to hold more moisture may disrupt rainfall patterns in lower and mid-latitudes in the coming decades.

Because of global warming, rainfall patterns all around the planet change in an inhomogeneous way.

Rainfall patterns also vary geographically within the Channel Islands National Park.

probably very different rainfall patterns.