Sentences with phrase «shifting precipitation regimes»

changes in soil moisture due to shifting precipitation regimes and evapotranspiration rates, which changes infiltration and runoff ratios;

Not exact matches

Negative: Lower and shorter duration snowpack and shift from snow to rain - dominant precipitation regimes resulting in less water available in summer

Moreover, if one only looks at the Lake Victoria level since 1880 one gets the mistaken impression that the high precipitation regime in 1880 was somehow «normal» and that the subsequent shift to drier conditions puts the glacier in a much drier environment than it had previously encountered.

Scientists have developed decision support tools to help managers understand the likelihood that precipitation regimes will shift from wet to dry conditions or vice-versa [65], [66].

It seems clear to me that the sentence is about responses to a shift from one climate regime, the recent past and present day, to another, with less precipitation, in the future (it is the IPCC climate change impacts report after all, and they do say `... not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation»).