Sentences with phrase «summer rainfall increases»

The model suggests that while summer rainfall increases in northwest Europe, Mediterranean regions will receive less rain.

Not exact matches

«If rainfall across the Murray Darling Basin reduces over summer, allocation prices are likely to increase,» Mr Delves says, «However if a wet summer is experienced, then we are in for continued low volumes of allocation trade and lower prices.»

The scientists warn that climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns — with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.

The summer's record - breaking rainfall in the Northeast, as well as depleting populations of bats that prey on mosquitoes due to white - nose syndrome, have increased fears as the U.S. enters its 10th West Nile season.

In the central United States, for example, observational data indicate that rainfall increased, surface air temperature decreased, and surface humidity increased during the summer over the course of the 20th century concurrently with increases in both agricultural production and global GHG emissions.

German summers tend to be warm and sunny with temperatures falling between 20 °C and 30 °C although rainfall increases slightly during June, July and August.

After a hot and humid summer, Cancun in Mexico begins to cool down during October, when temperatures drop slightly and the probability of rainfall increases.

This intensification has resulted in significantly greater global summer monsoon rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere than predicted from greenhouse - gas - induced warming alone: namely a 9.5 % increase, compared to the anthropogenic predicted contribution of 2.6 % per degree of global warming.

Summer is also the rainy season in Florida, and parts of Central Florida have seen an increase of 0.4» in summer rainfall per decade sinceSummer is also the rainy season in Florida, and parts of Central Florida have seen an increase of 0.4» in summer rainfall per decade sincesummer rainfall per decade since 1970.

The CSIRO projections are for an INCREASE of 1.5 % (low global warming scenario) and 3.5 % (high warming scenario) in rainfall in summer and autumn; and for a DECREASE of 3 % (low global warming scenario) and 7.5 % (high global warming scenario) in winter and spring.

Let's say for example, that we have a scenario in SE Aust where summer and autumn rainfall increase by +5 % and winter - spring decreases by -5 %.

The summer rainfall will have little effect on streamflow and the winter spring - rainfall will lead (with increases in evaporative demand) to a decrease in streamflow of > 10 %.

It's also home to some mysterious weather: Whereas the rest of the world has warmed, the region's summer temperatures have dropped as much as a full degree Celsius, and rainfall has increased up to 35 %, the largest spike anywhere in the world.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

A regional climate model study examines the influence of warm ocean surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Atlantic in summer to see what an increase of a few degrees Celsius does to rainfall.

In particular, in the European Mediterranean region, increases in the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflower).

«From 1910 - 1949 (pre-agricultural development, pre-DEV) to 1970 - 2009 (full agricultural development, full - DEV), the central United States experienced large - scale increases in rainfall of up to 35 % and decreases in surface air temperature of up to 1 °C during the boreal summer months of July and August... which conflicts with expectations from climate change projections for the end of the 21st century (i.e., warming and decreasing rainfall)(Melillo et al., 2014).»

Those dryer summers — particularly at a time of overall warming — could be a major concern, because below - average rainfall naturally increases the probability and duration of forest fires.

2011 was a hot year mostly because of a very hot 2010/11 summer, particularly February, and the onset of above average rainfall after May creating nighttime cloud cover that traps heat and increases the overnight minima.

Over Africa in northern summer, multi-model analysis projects an increase in rainfall in East and Central Africa, a decrease in the Sahel, and increases along the Gulf of Guinea coast (Figure 10.9).

The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.

In the northeastern United States, for example, climate change is likely to bring increased annual rainfall, while in the Pacific Northwest, summer rainfall is expected to decrease, the EPA said.

Increased frequency of 1.2 mm summer rainfall events reduced moss cover from ~ 25 % of total surface cover to < 2 % after only one growing season, whereas increased temperature had nIncreased frequency of 1.2 mm summer rainfall events reduced moss cover from ~ 25 % of total surface cover to < 2 % after only one growing season, whereas increased temperature had nincreased temperature had no effect.

Climate models typically predict an increase in Indian summer monsoon rainfall with anthropogenic warming.

For example, increased rainfall during a shorter period in winter still could lead to reduced levels in summer in river flows, lakes, wetlands, and thus in freshwater fisheries.

In its projection for South Asia, the technical summary of the report clearly points at «enhanced summer monsoon precipitation and increased rainfall extremes of landfall cyclones on the coasts of the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea».

He said though the Indian summer monsoon circulation will weaken, rainfall will increase due to higher atmospheric moisture resulting from a rise in temperatures.

For example, the UK's summer rainfall is decreasing on average, while winter rainfall is increasing.