"Rainfall trends" refers to the patterns or changes in the amount of rain that falls in a particular area over a period of time.
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To close things out, here's the promised deeper dive on flood and
rainfall trends in the state in the context of global warming.
This makes
heavy rainfall trends difficult to measure, because rain gauges are not always located where extreme rains occur.
The global climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were never intended to
provide rainfall trend projections for every region.
Today the
poor rainfall trend has made the Akosombo and the Bui dams a complete irrelevance and anachronism in our quest for sustainable electricity.
Drs Singer and Michaelides employ STORM to show that the
historical rainfall trends likely resulted in less runoff from this dryland basin, an effect they expect to have occurred at many similar basins in the region.
Here we analyze a series of climate model experiments along with observational data to show that the recent warming trend in Atlantic sea surface temperature and the corresponding trans - basin displacements of the main atmospheric pressure centers were key drivers of the observed Walker circulation intensification, eastern Pacific cooling, North
American rainfall trends and western Pacific sea - level rise.
My point is simply that observations of the
actual rainfall trend in recent times are not consistent with CSIRO model projections (I will of course withdraw this comment if my figuring is shown to be wrong).
By looking at this more closely, they hoped to discover
how rainfall trends might be linked to the Sahara's growth over time, according to Thomas.
However, the challenge to correctly simulate
Sahel rainfall trends is particularly daunting because multiple physical mechanisms compete to drive the trend upward or downward.
Projections of
future rainfall trends are uncertain in this region, despite projected southward shifts in the subtropical ridge and mid-latitude westerlies.
The divergent climate states were first discerned in arctic fisheries in 1996 but have since been discovered in changing abundances of anchovies and sardines in Monterey Bay (having given rise to John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row) and in Australian
multi-decadal rainfall trends.
Wardle and Smith (2004) argued that the
upward rainfall trend is consistent with the upward trend in land surface temperatures that has been observed in the south of the continent, independent of changes over the oceans.
He studied air and sea surface temperature, wind speed,
rainfall trends, and land movements that could lead to sea level drop.
It presents data on weather modifications, temperatures and
rainfall trends.
By the statistical evaluation of the different climate developments simulated, the uncertainties in climate projections can be better estimated and reduced, for example, for
rainfall trends.