Sentences with phrase «rainfall patterns of»

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

This has had a massive effect on patterns of rainfall and other aspects of climate.

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.

Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.

Fights over water; changing patterns of rainfall; fights over food production; land use,» she said.

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.

«These patterns that are based on decadal analysis of modern data, and then the hydroclimate proxies that give the salinity in the oceans and the rainfall on land seem to show the same picture.»

How temporal patterns in rainfall determine the geomorphology and carbon fluxes of tropical peatlands.

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.

Olson says climate scientists predict a continued pattern of extreme rainfall events in the upper Mississippi River region.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past century.

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.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

«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.

These communities found themselves at the epicenter of an unusual weather pattern that dumped record rainfall on northwestern Pakistan and sent floodwaters surging from the north to the rest of the nation.

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.

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.

When he parsed the data, the pattern was unmistakable: At the beginning of the ninth century A.D., there was a sharp and severe drop in rainfall.

WMO said the abnormal weather was caused by a persistent ridge of high pressure over western and central Europe, blocking more normal patterns of rainfall and temperature.

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 scientific literature contains two different mechanisms for a similar pattern — one stems from vegetation self - organizing in response to limited rainfall, and the other results from bustling termite mounds improving the lives of nearby plants.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

But experts say the pattern of Eocene rainfall and rivers, while perhaps important for ancient climate changes, may not help understand future climate changes.

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.

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.

The UM Rosenstiel School researchers used historical observations of cloud cover as a proxy for wind velocity in climate models to analyze the Walker circulation, the atmospheric air flow and heat distribution in the tropic Pacific region that affects patterns of tropical rainfall.

«We're going to see enormous changes in the distribution of plants and animals, agricultural patterns, and patterns of rainfall.»

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.

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.

«Essentially what happened was that the cold water influx altered the rainfall patterns at the middle of the globe,» said Rachael Rhodes, a research associate in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation.

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.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

Changes in the temperature of the sea surface in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans are linked to the pattern of rainfall over parts of the surrounding continents.

About 50 years after installing the panels, India and eastern Australia, for example, get warmer because of less rainfall, and the northwestern United States gets warmer because of wind pattern changes.

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.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

They are identifiable in sea level rise, altered rainfall patterns, retreat of Arctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and many other aspects of the climate system.

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.

In the article, «The Natural and Social History of the Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin,» the authors cite original interviews with indigenous leaders who note significant changes in the forest's rainfall patterns, river levels, fires and agriculture cycles their groups have relied on for thousands of years.

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).