Sentences with phrase «recent precipitation extremes»

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Such an elevated temperature would amplify temperature and precipitation extremes enough to make the weather events of recent years look tame in comparison.

The Democrats on the committee are staying true to form, as well, overstating the findings in a recent Nature paper to try — in a way that will surely backfire — to build urgency based on extreme precipitation patterns.

Some of the differences were touched on in my recent coverage of new analysis attributing some changes in extreme precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere to human - driven global warming.

Dr. Francis Zwiers, PCIC's Director, delivered a talk on recent advances in the detection and attribution of precipitation extremes.

Evidence that extreme precipitation is increasing is based primarily on analysis1, 2,3 of hourly and daily precipitation observations from the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network, and is supported by observed increases in atmospheric water vapor.4 Recent publications have projected an increase in extreme precipitation events, 1,5 with some areas getting larger increases6 and some getting decreases.7, 2

The IPCC reports that the risks associated with extreme weather events (heat waves, extreme precipitation, and the like) are moderately increased with the approximately 1 °C warming that we have already experienced (the recent report from the National Academies would support that conclusion) and that further warming will increase those risks.

While this week's expected precipitation is much - needed and notable given the recent extreme dryness, we're probably still on track for the driest year on record.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

As the climate has warmed, some types of extreme weather have become more frequent and severe in recent decades, with increases in extreme heat, intense precipitation, and drought.

Recent work by Agel et al. provides a detailed regional analysis of the seasonal and spatial distribution, time - scale, and contributing large - scale factors associated with extreme short - term precipitation in the Northeast.

2012 Controversial «attribution» studies find recent disastrous heat waves, droughts, extremes of precipitation, and floods were made worse by global warming.

For example, a recent study on the severe flooding in England in the winter of 2013/14 found that as well as increasing the amount of moisture the atmosphere can hold, human - caused warming had slightly increased the number of January days with the type of wind patterns that favour extreme precipitation.