Sentences with phrase «take changes in rainfall»
And those predictions didn't take changes in rainfall pattern with climate into account.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.
A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.
One step in the modeling was to take the outputs of GCMs and for each of them calculate the change in rainfall, change in CAPE, and change in their product.
But many of the most important effects, such as changes in rainfall and soil moisture, may take place well before there is any detectable warming.
... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.
Extreme weather will strike as climate change takes hold, IPCC warns Heavier rainfall, storms and droughts could wipe billions off economies and destroy lives, says report by 220 scientists Heavier rainfall, fiercer storms and intensifying droughts are likely to strike the world in the coming decades as climate change takes effect, the world's leading climate scientists said on Friday.