Sentences with phrase «rainfall patterns all»

The National Rural Health Alliance acknowledges that climate change poses a growing risk to the health and wellbeing of people living in regional, rural and remote communities, through more frequent severe weather events, longer droughts and changes in rainfall patterns.

In the Torres Strait, it is predicted that food production will be severely affected because of increased temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, salinity which will turn previously productive land infertile, and erosion.

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

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Stanford University say their comprehensive map of the region's climate 21,000 years ago is helping them test and improve climate models that can predict how rainfall patterns might change in the future.

Our experiments show that the solar cycle influences tropospheric rainfall patterns in a manner consistent with some observations, with increased solar activity favoring precipitation north of the equator (for example, the South Asian monsoon) and decreased precipitation both near the equator and at northern mid-latitudes.

Science Daily Geoengineering could disrupt rainfall patterns June 6, 2012 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606092715.htm

That will mean changes in sea levels, rainfall patterns, extreme weather, and so on.

Such is the complexity of rainfall patterns that changes can be caused both by human factors, such as greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric pollutants, and natural factors, such as changes in the sun's activity and explosive volcanic eruptions.

«The Amazon region is showing evidence of altered rainfall patterns.

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.

Phillips, J.G., M.A. Cane, and C. Rosenzweig, 1998: ENSO, seasonal rainfall patterns and simulated maize yield variability in Zimbabwe.

It is not the case, nor is it expected, that all regions, let alone points, on the globe will show the same changes in temperature or rainfall patterns.

«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.»

These oceanic variations are associated with significant regional and global shifts in temperature and rainfall patterns that are evident in the observations.

The dust and cloud interplay also helps explain rainfall patterns over the Sahara Desert and south of that area.

Models generally aren't very good at simulating changes in rainfall patterns to increasing GHG and resulting global warming.

Authors of a recent study published in Science Advances used paleoclimate data to examine how rainfall patterns have responded to past climate shifts.

In the past 60 years temperatures have risen, rainfall patterns have changed and soils have begun to dry out even further.

I didn't get where the «rainfall patterns» came from (other than an usual obfuscation, just in case), but the «expected part» needs some examination.

What happens when we change the climate so much, from temperatures to rainfall patterns, that crops can no longer be easily grown?

But, I think that nation states are going to engage in unilateral geoengineering to change rainfall patterns in the next thirty years and that will lead to new regional conflicts (which we don't need).

The reason why Figure 9.1 in IPCC AR4 is disconcerting is that the temperature anomaly in the upper tropical atmosphere bears the signature of increased moist convective activity, which means that the hydrological cycle probably gets perturbed by increased GHG forcings, hence affecting rainfall patterns.

The coal plants you think that you can replace may be in marginal areas now, replacing them with a nuclear plant with greater cooling requirements may just lead to more shutdowns even if there is sufficient cooling water as climate change changes rainfall patterns.

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.

This comes in terms of the lack of water from glacial melt, or changes in disease vectors, or rainfall patterns, or the lodge pole pine being killed off by beetles in million - acre swaths.

Urban Pollution Also Affects Rainfall Patterns Near City But where the research gets really interesting is when it examines the effects of pollution from the city on weather:

and undetermined changes in rainfall patterns...

As phenomenon such as El Niño demonstrate, even subtle shifts in winds and surface currents can profoundly impact temperature and rainfall patterns both locally and globally.

Currents in turn redistribute the heat the ocean carries and play a major role in shaping global temperature and rainfall patterns.

What is going to happen to rainfall patterns.

Actually, they are quite wrong in lots of ways, not just surface temperature projections (way too much ocean heat uptake, incorrect short term variability, incorrect rainfall patterns, even incorrect absolute temperatures, very poor region projections..

It asks both rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns.

Moreover, unless something is done, the current suffering offers a grim foretaste of the future — temperatures in East Africa are going to rise and rainfall patterns will change, making a bad situation worse.

I am one of the few working in the area of rainfall patterns over different parts of the globe.

In 70s & 80s, before encroachment of global warming in to climate studies, before starting analyzing rainfall data by clubbing the rainfall of different rain gauge stations, we used to homogenize the rain gauge stations in terms of rainfall patterns.

Large - scale changes in savanna vegetation cover may also feed back to regional rainfall patterns.

Keep in mind that as carbon dioxide increases, temperatures also increase, rainfall patterns change, and some kinds of extreme weather events become more common and severe.

However wild some of them may look, experts say, forests from the deepest Amazon to the remotest reaches of Siberia are now responding to human influences, including the rising level of carbon dioxide in the air, increasing heat and changing rainfall patterns.

«In a 2 °C rise world, the region would see changes in rainfall patterns: some areas would be getting much more rain than they are getting today and others would be experiencing droughts.

Scientists have found several indicators that point to human - caused warming, including melting of glaciers and ice sheets, ocean heat content, rainfall patterns, atmospheric moisture, river runoff, stratospheric cooling, and the extent of Arctic sea ice.

In fragile contexts more than anywhere else, it is essential to realise how climate impacts — such as changing rainfall patterns, increased natural disasters and constraints to carbon - based economic growth — will have knock - on consequences on the national economy, trade, development, equity, governance and political stability.

Interviews with indigenous communities indicate that rainfall patterns and river levels are changing, and the minor fires traditionally used for small - scale rotational agriculture are more difficult to control.

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.

The rainfall patterns reconstructed from the 2009 snail shells have «good consistency with rainfall,» said Anant Parekh of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, who did not participate in the project.

It could lead to changes in rainfall patterns, droughts, floods and more.

7 May, 2017 — The warming climate is upsetting rainfall patterns and the frequency of flooding in West Africa as it makes the region's Sahel storms three times likelier.

On undesirability, Hulme explains that although the approach would reduce global temperatures, it would also have significant side - effects, such as changing local rainfall patterns.

The bioproductivity of land mostly depends on rainfall patterns.

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

Predictions about climate change are based on computer models that predict how phenomena such as temperature, rainfall patterns, and sea level will be affected.