Sentences with phrase «regional precipitation increase»

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They found that regional differences in the timing of precipitation, and the resulting increase in local vegetation and plants («greening»), could best explain the source of genetic differences.

The potential risks around sulfate aerosol solar geoengineering include alteration of regional precipitation patterns, its effects on human health, and the potential damage to Earth's ozone layer by increased stratospheric sulfate particles.

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...

The contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will increase, although there may be regional exceptions.

The result is that there is no difference in regional cloud cover trends, neither of precipitation, with increasing contamination and that the contaminated area has more dimming, but warmed more than the less contaminated area.

Not only we have no ability to make a reliable regional forecast, but the current thinking suggests that Antartcica is net - net accumulating ice due to increased 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.

Our observational studies (Gray and Schwartz, 2010 and 2011) of the variations of outward radiation (IR + albedo) energy flux to space (ISCCP data) vs. tropical and global precipitation increase (from NCEP reanalysis data) indicates that there is not a reduction of global net radiation (IR + Albedo) to space which is associated with increased global or tropical - regional rainfall.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

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

The inability of global climate models to match the timing or placement of short - term or regional precipitation patterns such as the West African monsoon may be alleviated by «downscaling» to use smaller scale climate models with increased area resolution.

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 contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will probably increase, although there may be regional exceptions.

For terrestrial British Columbia, precipitation averages and extremes can be simulated more accurately within individual regions by using gridded downscaling to increase the resolution of both global and regional climate models.

Global precipitation will increase, and the heaviest precipitation events are intensifying [1], but with regional differences: Wet regions such as the tropical rainforests will become rainier while semi-arid regions of the subtropics expand and become drier.

For terrestrial British Columbia, precipitation averages and extremes can be simulated more accurately within individual regions by using gridded downscaling to increase the resolution of regional climate models.

Those who do come to the Northwest will be faced with an unpleasant reality, she adds, reciting a list of problems expected to strike the region before the turn of the century: regional temperature increases between 5.5 and 9.1 degrees Fahrenheit; drier summers making the Northwest's forests more susceptible to fire; declining snowpack, as more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow at higher elevations, straining regional water supplies and increasing the risk of flooding downstream.

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., 2005).

Drought stress could partially be counteracted by concurrent CO2 - induced enhanced water - use efficiency (Gerten et al., 2005), small regional increases in precipitation, and an increased depth of permafrost thawing.

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].

Discussions of agriculture and forestry problems such as regional droughts and changing types of plants must include the expansion of production areas, general increased precipitation, and CO2 fertilization.

Increased equatorial insolation due to reduced Easterly Wave SC cloud mass, promoting increased northern hemisphere evaporation and precipitation resulting in a hiatus on a global averaging basis, but regional specific cause - and - effect varIncreased equatorial insolation due to reduced Easterly Wave SC cloud mass, promoting increased northern hemisphere evaporation and precipitation resulting in a hiatus on a global averaging basis, but regional specific cause - and - effect varincreased northern hemisphere evaporation and precipitation resulting in a hiatus on a global averaging basis, but regional specific cause - and - effect variability?

The coarse resolution of global models, together with regional uncertainties in precipitation, make it difficult to assess the probability of deflation becoming supply - limited consequent on wetting of the Bodélé and / or increased vegetation cover over the basin.