Sentences with phrase «regional changes in precipitation»

As many impacts are closely related to regional changes in precipitation that directly affect water and food, attribution of damages solely to temperature may be a less accurate approximation for regionally highly uneven forcings.

There were regional changes in precipitation, too, but they didn't all cancel out like with temperature.

Not exact matches

The difference among the recharge projections from the 11 global change models reflects the difference in future regional precipitation that the models project, the authors write.

Resulting changes in the atmospheric temperature structure, including from surface dimming, in turn affect regional circulation and precipitation patterns.

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

For instance, changes in ocean convection over the north Atlantic would affect the jet stream, which would have a dramatic effect upon regional precipitation, probably leading to acute drought in the northern hemisphere, which will weaken and push the northern jet stream toward the Arctic.

-- Projected precipitation and temperature changes imply changes in floods, although overall there is low confidence at the global scale regarding climate - driven changes in magnitude or frequency of river - related flooding, due to limited evidence and because the causes of regional changes are complex.

As I said, it's more of a regional and seasonally concentrated climate change, and the most evident climate changes are in tropical precipitation.

The water vapor feedback (a generally positive feedback)-- there is an roughly exponential increase in saturation water vapor pressure with increasing temperature, and the relative humidity (at a given vertical level) overall tends not to change a lot globally, though there will be different regional trends associated with shifting precipitation patterns.

Figuring this out will be important for understanding regional climate change — is persistent drought in the American West going to be the result, or will regional precipitation become highly variable in space and time?

Andy T is correct that the largest changes in the South Asian monsoon rainfall is occurring in the Bay of Bengal which, by the way, is the regional maximum in precipitation and has been for a long time.

Accordingly, there is less certainty about the changes in frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones on a regional basis than for temperature and precipitation changes.

increased risk of regional water scarcity, Precipitation in the US appears to have increased, so this is nonsense terms of climate change.

[2] Bhend J, Whetton P (2013) Consistency of simulated and observed regional changes in temperature, sea level pressure and precipitation.

Working from collision data from Transport Canada, weather data from Environment Canada and the output of regional climate models, they explored how future changes in precipitation could effect road safety in the Greater Vancouver area.

Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate change, mainly as a consequence of decreases in regional precipitation but also because of increasing evaporation driven by global warming1 — 3.

The NAO's prominent upward trend from the 1950s to the 1990s caused large regional changes in air temperature, precipitation, wind and storminess, with accompanying impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and contributed to the accelerated rise in global mean surface temperature (e.g., Hurrell 1996; Ottersen et al. 2001; Thompson et al. 2000; Visbeck et al. 2003; Stenseth et al. 2003).

For example, every few years an ocean cycle appears in the Pacific ocean either as an El Niño and La Niña with global temperature and regional precipitation pattern changes.

Masson - Delmotte et al. (2005) highlight an abrupt drop in GRIP deuterium excess at 4.5 ka, and suggest that this change in isotopes of precipitation over central Greenland may have recorded a shift in regional hydroclimate.

This section documents regional changes and slow fluctuations in atmospheric circulation over past decades, and demonstrates that these are consistent with large - scale changes in other variables, especially temperature and precipitation.

Hawkins, E., and R. Sutton, 2011: The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change.

The report states that climate impacts could include «significant changes in sea level, ocean currents, precipitation patterns, regional temperature and weather.»

In climate: On the need for bias correction of regional climate change projections of temperature and precipitation Jens.

On a regional scale, these parameters strongly impact on weather and climate in Europe, determining precipitation patterns and strengths, as well as changes in temperature and wind patterns.

Large differences in regional precipitation change between a first and second 2K of global warming.

The same should be true for climate change we should evaluate the changes in temperature (not anomalies) over time at the same stations and present the data as a spaghetti graph showing any differing trends and not assume that regional or climates in gridded areas are the same — which they are not as is obvious from the climate zones that exist or microclimates due to changes in precipitation, land use etc..

Future change of precipitation extremes in Europe: Intercomparison of scenarios from regional climate models.

Their species distributions often are limited by thermal and salinity boundaries, which are expected to change with regional changes in temperature and precipitation.

In North America's Prairie Pothole region, models have projected an increase in drought with a 3 °C regional temperature increase and varying changes in precipitation, leading to large losses of wetlands and to declines in the populations of waterfowl breeding there (Johnson et al., 2005In North America's Prairie Pothole region, models have projected an increase in drought with a 3 °C regional temperature increase and varying changes in precipitation, leading to large losses of wetlands and to declines in the populations of waterfowl breeding there (Johnson et al., 2005in drought with a 3 °C regional temperature increase and varying changes in precipitation, leading to large losses of wetlands and to declines in the populations of waterfowl breeding there (Johnson et al., 2005in precipitation, leading to large losses of wetlands and to declines in the populations of waterfowl breeding there (Johnson et al., 2005in the populations of waterfowl breeding there (Johnson et al., 2005).

Abstract Changes in total solar irradiance can be linked to changes in regional precipiChanges in total solar irradiance can be linked to changes in regional precipichanges in regional precipitation.

Lower case a-h refer to how the literature was addressed in terms of up / downscaling (a — clearly defined global impact for a specific ΔT against a specific baseline, upscaling not necessary; b — clearly defined regional impact at a specific regional ΔT where no GCM used; c — clearly defined regional impact as a result of specific GCM scenarios but study only used the regional ΔT; d — as c but impacts also the result of regional precipitation changes; e — as b but impacts also the result of regional precipitation change; f — regional temperature change is off - scale for upscaling with available GCM patterns to 2100, in which case upscaling is, where possible, approximated by using Figures 10.5 and 10.8 from Meehl et al., 2007; g — studies which estimate the range of possible outcomes in a given location or region considering a multi-model ensemble linked to a global temperature change.

While surface temperature show a significant warming over western Himalayas in the last few decades, the observed regional precipitation changes are irregular and not spatially coherent.

In particular, the research indicates that seasonal and regional changes in temperature and, to a certain degree, precipitation can be estimated solely on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions, which makes it simpler to study the effects of climate changIn particular, the research indicates that seasonal and regional changes in temperature and, to a certain degree, precipitation can be estimated solely on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions, which makes it simpler to study the effects of climate changin temperature and, to a certain degree, precipitation can be estimated solely on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions, which makes it simpler to study the effects of climate change.

Predicting how such feedbacks will play out in the next 300 years will certainly require good predictions of regional climate change — not just temperature, but also precipitation, snow pack, soil moisture, etc..

Next, regional changes in temperature and precipitation in the high - end and non-high-end models are examined.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

Observed changes in regional temperature and precipitation can often be physically related to one another.