Sentences with phrase «stronger rainfall events»

Moreover, rising global average temperatures lead to longer pollen seasons in many places and — when combined with stronger rainfall events, flooding, and higher humidity — create the perfect environment for mold to flourish.

Not exact matches

«There are exceptions, so even a stronger event is not a guarantee that they'll be increased rainfall,» L'Heureux said.

Pielke critiques the state of flood research, but sidesteps the strong evidence showing that extreme rainfall events have increased due to human - caused climate change.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program found that if emission rates continue unchanged the U.S. is likely to experience stronger coastal storm surges and more frequent extreme rainfall events.

Physical features of this El Nino that MIGHT be relevant to this deviation from expectation are (1) the area of strongly above - average rainfall in the tropical Pacific Ocean does not extend as far eastward, toward the coast of South America, as it has in other strong El Nino events, such as 1997 - 98 and 1982 - 83.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

Masters's column then delves into specific events from around the globe: extremely low Arctic ice and rapid melting in Greenland; a radical shift from El Nino to La Nina; an Amazonian drought; a bizarre period for tropical cyclones and monsoons; floods, heat waves, record rainfalls across the world; the strongest non-coastal storm in U.S. history; and a long list of countries that set record high temperatures.

Such rainfall regimes cover nearly half of the global land, where either a gradual climate change across the ecosystem thresholds or a strong perturbation due to either extreme climate events, land use, or diseases could trigger abrupt ecosystem changes.