Sentences with phrase «rainfall patterns across»

«Some have suggested cyclic changes in the overturning may be warming and cooling the whole North Atlantic over the course of several decades and affecting rainfall patterns across the US and Africa, and even the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic.»

CSIRO's Dr Leon Rotstayn said that further research into how aerosols are influencing climate and rainfall patterns across Australia is critical to scientists» ability to more accurately predict the longer - term effects of climate change.

The deforestation is accelerating global warming and could result in changing rainfall patterns across Europe, the U.S. Midwest and China, researchers said.

Deforestation of tropical forests in the world's southern hemisphere is threatening world food production by distorting rainfall patterns across the rest of the globe, a study has indicated.

Namely that global agricultural irrigation is on the edge of sustainability in many regions, including areas of the US, and that even a slight change in rainfall patterns across the temperate mid-latitudes would have extremely serious consequences?

Euresia Review: How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world?

A stalling of this ocean current also could change rainfall patterns across the globe.

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

A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The pair used data on winter rainfall collected during the 1980s and climate - predicting computer models to extrapolate future rain - on - snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere.

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

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.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

However, the effects of introducing these particles are not expected to be the same across the globe, and the offsetting of human - induced changes in other quantities such as rainfall and weather patterns may not work as well as for temperature.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

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.

This appears to be related to a poor representation of the spatial relationships between rainfall variability and zonal wind patterns across southeast Australia in the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ensemble, particularly in the areas where weather systems embedded in the mid-latitude westerlies are the main source of cool - season rainfall.

The IPCC said yesterday that the effects of this rise are being felt sooner than anticipated with the poorest countries and the poorest people set to suffer the worst of shifts in rainfall patterns, temperature rises and the viability of agriculture across much of the developing world.