The TOGA ensemble produces very similar
tropical precipitation trends as GOGA.
Not exact matches
«Century of Data Shows Intensification of Water Cycle but No Increase in Storms or Floods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including
precipitation and evaporation, this
trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of
tropical storms or floods over the past century.
While there has been a recent increase in the number of landfalling US hurricanes, the increase in
tropical cyclone - associated heavy events is much higher than would be expected from the pre-1994 association between the two, indicating that the upward
trend in heavy
precipitation events is due to an increase in the number of heavy
precipitation events per system.
The model, forced with observed SSTs, generally reproduces the observed pattern of
precipitation trends in the central and western
tropical Pacific, with increases in convective
precipitation of up to 0.8 mm / day / decade.