Sentences with phrase «subtropical dry regions»

Those patterns matched three rather dire climate model predictions: that storm tracks — the paths along which cyclones travel in the Northern and Southern hemispheres — would shift poleward; that subtropical dry regions would expand, and that the tops of the highest clouds would get even higher.

Not exact matches

Climate models predict that as global temperatures rise over the next seven decades, subtropical regions like the American Southwest will get drier, while more northern areas, including much of Canada, will get wetter.

In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature.

The study revealed five major tropical forest regions: Indo - Pacific, Subtropical, African, American, and Dry Forests, which are found at the boundaries between tropical and dry climatDry Forests, which are found at the boundaries between tropical and dry climatdry climates.

During summer, regions of Mediterranean climate are dominated by subtropical high - pressure, with dry sinking air capping a surface marine layer of varying humidity and making rainfall unlikely.

Equatorial convective regions have intensified in upward motion and moistened, while both the equatorial and subtropical subsidence regions have become drier and less cloudy.

In Australia, it's led to a shift in the «subtropical dry zone,» a region that stretches around the world and receives little rain, by 125 to 250 miles (200 to 400 kilometers) to the south.

There's an expansion of the dry subtropical zone to higher latitudes, so regions like California, like Syria, both areas that have seen unprecedented drought, are expected to get drier.

Large positive values of P * — E * indicate anomalously wet regions such as the Asian monsoon regions, the Pacific ITCZ, and the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks; large negative values of P * — E * indicate anomalously dry regions such as the subtropical lows, the Mediterranean, and the Boreal forests (Fig. 1).

Broadly, water resources are projected to decrease in many mid-latitude and dry subtropical regions, and to increase at high latitudes and in many humid mid-latitude regions (high agreement, robust evidence).

Since climate change is expected to make subtropical regions drier, desertification is expected to further increase, especially due to bidirectional albedo — vegetation feedback [22].

The subtropical regions (e.g. the Mediterranean, North Africa and Central America) experience a drying owing to increased transport of water vapour out of this area and an expansion of the subtropical high - pressure regions towards the poles [4].