Sentences with phrase «season length increased»

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«Our study also showed that the levels of both grass and birch pollen increased during the study period and that the length of the pollen season has increased.

The end result: an increase in length of the snow - free season, by about one week per decade from 1975 to 2016.

The length of the smoke wave season, the period between the first and last smoke wave day, is estimated to increase by an average of 15 days in more than 62.5 percent of the counties.

«The length of the hurricane season has been expanding,» he says, «increasing by about five days per decade — about 15 days since 1970.»

In the case of Arctic whales, the changes in sea ice might benefit their populations, at least in the short term: the loss and earlier retreat of sea ice opens up new habitats and, in some areas of the Arctic, has also led to an increase in food production and the length of their feeding season.

That's because double cropping effectively increases the length of the active growing season — the period during which cropland evapotranspiration rivals that of native vegetation.

Ziska, L. et al., 2011: Recent warming by latitude associated with increased length of ragweed pollen season in central North America.

Consistent with observed increases in surface temperature, there have been decreases in the length of river and lake ice seasons.

Similarly, expected future increases in precipitation and length of growing season would tend to increase methane production.

The length of the frost - free season has increased in most mid - and high - latitude regions of both hemispheres.

We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

In addition, when correlations were constrained to the time period that satellite burned area observations were available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)(2001 - 2012), and thus where estimates of land - use change carbon emissions were more certain2, correlations between fire weather season length, long fire season affected area and net land carbon fluxes increased substantially to ρ = − 0.797 and ρ = − 0.825, respectively, n = 12, P < 0.01).

In contrast to all other continents in our analysis, Australia showed no significant trends in biome - level fire season length, but we identified regional increases in the frequency of anomalously long fire weather seasons, especially from 1996 to 2013 (Fig. 3b).

Fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area significantly increased across all vegetated continents except Australia.

South America's tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas have experienced tremendous fire weather season length changes, with a median increase of 33 days over the last 35 years (Fig. 3a and Table 6).

Fire weather season length and long fire weather season affected area increased significantly across all continents except Australia (Table 1).

The length of the wildfire season may also be increasing, research has shown.

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We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

Although data are not complete, and sometimes contradictory, the weight of evidence from past studies shows on a global scale that precipitation, runoff, atmospheric water vapor, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, growing season length, and wintertime mountain glacier mass are all increasing.

The better metrics are length of active wildfire season, which has increased by about 2 months in the western US in the last 40 years, and area burned, which has also doubled... Future projections indicate a dramatic increase in area burned.»

Fires in western forests began increasing abruptly in the 1980s, as measured by area burned, the number of large fires, and length of the fire season.

For corn, small long - term average temperature increases will shorten the duration of reproductive development, leading to yield declines, 4 even when offset by carbon dioxide (CO2) stimulation.5, 6 For soybeans, yields have a two in three chance of increasing early in this century due to CO2 fertilization, but these increases are projected to be offset later in the century by higher temperature stress7 (see Figure 18.2 for projections of increases in the frost - free season length and the number of summer days with temperatures over 95 °F).

This phase change of water causes a powerful local feedback, which, together with moderate global warming, can substantially increase the length of the melt season.

According to the press release: «This trio of images shows changes between 1979 and 2007 in the average date of melt onset in the spring (left), the first autumn freeze (center), and the total average increase in the length of the Arctic sea ice melt season.

The melting season — i.e. the length of time in which continuous melting occurs — has increased on average by 6.4 days for every decade between 1979 and 2007.

Temperatures are continuing to rise with consequent increases in evaporation and atmospheric humidity and reductions in snow amount and snow season length in many regions.

(PDF) It notes that, based on data collected from study plots over a 13 - year period and survey data covering 27 years on the tundra of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, an area where both temperatures and the length of the growing season has increased in recent decades:

Higher temperatures will increase growing season lengths, metabolic rates, and rates of nitrogen mineralization at high latitudes and altitudes, thereby increasing productivity.

Our results indicated that vegetation greenness in the Great Basin increased significantly during the study period... [C] limate warming played a strong role in extending GSL [growing season length] that in turn resulted in the upward trend in mean vegetation greenness during 1982 — 2011.

The average season length (the time between the reported first wildfire discovery date and the last wildfire control date) increased by 78 days (64 %), comparing 1970 to 1986 with 1987 to 2003.

What the report says about farming and climate change: Since 1901, the consecutive number of frost - free days and the length of the growing season have increased for the seven contiguous U.S. regions used in this assessment.

We show that over extratropical regions where wheat and maize are harvested, the increase in growing season length from 1956 to 2005 can be attributed to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.

The length of the growing season in interior Alaska has increased 45 % over the last century7 and that trend is projected to continue.8 This could improve conditions for agriculture where moisture is adequate, but will reduce water storage and increase the risks of more extensive wildfire and insect outbreaks across much of Alaska.9, 10 Changes in dates of snowmelt and freeze - up would influence seasonal migration of birds and other animals, increase the likelihood and rate of northerly range expansion of native and non-native species, alter the habitats of both ecologically important and endangered species, and affect ocean currents.11

«We do know that if you heat up the oceans, you tend to increase the length of hurricane season and have storms earlier and later in season,» Masters said.

Growing season length is related to number of frost days, and has been projected to increase as climate warms.

Recent warming by latitude associated with increased length of ragweed pollen season in central North America.

They find that the projected future increases to growing season length result in greater vegetation productivity and biomass, though this plateaus at the end of of the 21st century.

Conversely, food production in northern countries, especially in industrialized nations, could increase due to the effects of global warming increasing the length of the growing season.

All of these parameters show what we would expect in a warming climate: daily minimum, maximum, and average temperatures are increasing, cooling degree days, growing degree days and growing season length are increasing, heating degree days are decreasing, the counts of warm days are increasing and cool days are decreasing.

Increased dry - season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection.

Global warming is likely to increase the number of people at risk of dengue epidemics by expanding both the area suitable for the mosquito vectors and the length of dengue transmission season in temperate areas.

Their projections show an increase to growing season length, vegetation productivity (outside of the southeastern US) and biomass, as well as increased plant water - use efficiency.They also find that vegetation feedbacks may increase warming in summer at higher latitudes and reduce summer warming at lower latitudes.

Chp 11 pp 850 «Snow season length and snow depth are very likely to decrease in most of North America except in the northernmost part of Canada where maximum snow depth is likely to increase» Box 11.1, Figure 2.

We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing acidity of the oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.