Sentences with phrase «scale rainfall patterns»

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Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

So apparently you're suggesting that decadal - scale precipitation patterns (more, less rainfall) and temperature changes are better explained by atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

«Researchers working at the Australian National University Research School of Earth Sciences have discovered century - scale patterns in Pacific rainfall and temperature, and linked them with global climate changes in the past 2000 years.

«Lehmann et al. (2015) also found large — scale increasing patterns in extreme precipitation, with 12 % more record - breaking rainfall events over 1981 — 2010.

«Heat escaping from the ocean through polynyas impacts the large - scale energy budget of the ocean and atmosphere, cloud patterns, and even rainfall...»

For example, the Hadley cell, the large - scale pattern of atmospheric circulation that transports heat from the tropics to the subtropics, has marched south during recent decades, moving the subtropical dry zone (a band that receives little rainfall) along with it.

Forests are the only carbon capture and storage «technology» we have in our grasp that is safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects — from regulating rainfall patterns to providing livelihoods to indigenous communities.»

Overall, we find that the CTL simulation in the low resolution CESM captures the larger - scale patterns of seasonal rainfall and its variability associated with ENSO reasonably well.

Interviews with indigenous communities indicate that rainfall patterns and river levels are changing, and the minor fires traditionally used for small - scale rotational agriculture are more difficult to control.

Large - scale changes in savanna vegetation cover may also feed back to regional rainfall patterns.

It is further argued that the transition of vertical circulation patterns is in response to adjustments to geostrophic imbalance — an adjustment time scale of 6 — 9 h. Although unproven, we suggest that antecedent rainfall over the alkali desert 2 weeks prior to the event was instrumental in lowering the bulk density of sediments and thereby improved the chances for dust ablation by the atmospheric disturbance.

In summary, in contrast with the simulations of extreme temperature by climate models, extreme precipitation is difficult to reproduce, especially for the intensities and patterns of heavy rainfall which are heavily affected by the local scale (see Chapter 10).