Sentences with phrase «term changes in weather patterns»

Physical risks can be acute — from severe weather events — or chronic, from long - term changes in weather patterns.

-- or chronic, from long - term changes in weather patterns.

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The company's global perspective in terms of supply chain also serves an important purpose in protecting it against the natural spikes and valleys caused by changing seasons and weather patterns.

Droegemeier does not expect Bridenstine to support slashing the agency's budget, especially given that much of NASA's mission can be framed in terms of collecting data that are as applicable to understanding weather patterns as to understanding climate change.

And while weather patterns can change from year to year, Lake Superior appears to be behaving in ways that, to scientists, indicate long - term climate change: Water temperatures are rising and evaporation is up, which leads to lower water levels in some seasons.

In simple terms, what the researchers were looking at is how much weather changes from one day to the next, and how long a weather pattern — like a heat wave or a cold snap — lasts.

Not only do the vagaries of weather patterns and ocean currents make it hard to see climate changes, but the variability in what are often termed the Earth System components complicates the picture enormously.

«They were questions about how ice sheets relate to sea level, changes in the ocean, changes in the atmosphere and also changes in weather and long - term climate patterns,» says Dr Kennicutt.

Even so, our forecasting abilities must further improve for Montanans to better prepare for short - term variation in weather patterns and expected long - term impacts associated with climate change.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

The 20 - year horizon is relevant to short - term impacts, such as changes in weather patterns; the 100 - year horizon applies to longer time - scale changes, such as sea - level rise; while 500 years represents the longest time - scale it is felt reasonable to consider given our current knowledge.

For instance, T. Palmer, a scientist at the European center for medium - range weather forecast, writes in the journal «Weather» that climate predictions using GCMs could be grossly misleading because the computer simulations may be unable to accurately predict long - term changes in the frequency of weather patterns.

«Increasing weather volatility or other long - term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients... we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas...» — Chipotle 2013 Annual Report

In a nutshell, climate change occurs when long - term weather patterns are altered — for example, through human activity.

Climate change is a long - term change in Earth's weather patterns or average climate, including temperature and precipitation.

Jeff Knight said: «Our analysis shows that climate change likely did make a contribution to the record rainfall in 2013 - 14 through a long - term increase in UK winter rainfall that is not associated with changing weather patterns.

Documented long - term climate changes include changes in Arctic temperatures and ice, widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones.

Climate change is the long - term average of a region's weather events lumped together.There are some effects of greenhouse gases and global warming: melting of ice caps, rising sea levels, change in climatic patterns, spread diseases, economic consequences, increased droughts and heat waves.

Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.

The most natural type of long term variability is in my view based on slowly varying changes in ocean circulation, which doesn't necessarily involve major transfer of heat from one place to another but influences cloudiness and other large scale weather patterns and through that the net energy flux of the Earth system.

So a long term trend in horizontal heat transport can't change weather patterns or weather patterns don't affect albedo or albedo doesn't affect the energy budget?

13 Natural Climate Changes Seasons: are short - term periods of climatic change caused by regular variations in daylight, temperature, and weather patterns.

Seasons: are short - term periods of climatic change caused by regular variations in daylight, temperature, and weather patterns.

On the shorter term, fluctuations occur because a state would not be in equilibrium if it were constant, but the change in external forcing means that with the same climate, the shorter term imbalances would be changed, so the weather patterns even in the shorter term would evolve differently.

In short, aerosols can be linked to poorer air quality (both indoor and outdoor) and deaths because of this, changing short - term weather patterns, and long - term climatic changes contributing to melting of both Arctic sea ice and glaciers.

Climate change refers to a large - scale, long - term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures.

Climate change is a large - scale, long - term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures.