Sentences with phrase «tropical rainfall»
"Tropical rainfall" refers to the amount of rain that falls in tropical regions. These areas usually have a warm climate with dense forests and a lot of biodiversity. Tropical rainfall is often high because of the humid air, resulting in lush vegetation and supporting various ecosystems. Full definition
Since 1979 the boundaries of tropical rainfall have been shifting towards the poles, by 60 - 110 km a decade according to one estimate.
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If tropical rainfall patterns shift, ecosystems like rainforests could be hugely impacted.
Also, temperature anomalies like those in the figure at the top do influence tropical rainfall patterns.
A present - day bias identified in climate projections means that future tropical rainfall may be underestimated.
This large region of below - average temperatures coincides with the area of well below - average tropical rainfall.
«This effect may have a significant impact on global tropical rainfall,» he says.
That's the conclusion of new research that shows deforestation can significantly reduce tropical rainfall far from the area where trees have been cut down.
This study investigates the variability of convective and stratiform rainfall from 8 yr (1998â $ «2005) of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements, focusing on seasonal diurnal variability.
There are CERES instruments aboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission, or TRMM, satellite, Terra, Aqua and NASA - NOAA's Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellites.
Spracklen, D. V., Arnold, S. R. & Taylor, C. M. Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests.
According to the National Weather Service, changes in the water temperature in the Eastern Pacific can have dramatic impacts on tropical rainfall in that region.
Texas is an area where Gulf Tropical Storms and hurricanes often stall for days, and 6 of the heaviest tropical rainfall events for the U.S. have occurred in Texas.
This 3 - D simulated Flyby was created using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar data from 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.
Farmer's pure Kona beans is raised in rich volcanic soil across the slopes of Mount Hualalai, receiving beautiful coastal sunshine in the mornings and reliable gentle tropical rainfall every afternoon.
Swann's previous research looked at how a hypothetical massive tree planting in the Northern Hemisphere to slow global warming could have the unintended effect of changing tropical rainfall.
The existing Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite operates at 14 gigahertzs.
«More big storms increase tropical rainfall totals.»
Under normal conditions, the trade winds and ocean currents in the tropical Pacific travel from the Americas to Asia, maintaining a pool of very warm water and a related area of intense tropical rainfall around Indonesia.
«There is an emerging understanding of the physical mechanisms behind changes in the monsoons and tropical rainfall after such eruptions,» says Toohey.
These changes in available water were detected in part with NASA satellites including the NASA / JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat), and NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, a joint mission with the German Aerospace Center.
The aim is to both review recent progress on tropical rainfall dynamics and to identify areas where progress is most amenable in the future given the existing and emerging modelling tools and theoretical frameworks.
«But one application might be in improving our understanding of how tropical rainfall responds to tiny changes in humidity.»
Leave with balance, calmness, and spontaneous tropical rainfall.
The affected areas around Rio de Janeiro lie well south of the zone of active tropical rainfall of the ITCZ.
«Tropical Rainfall Trends and the Indirect Aerosol Effect.»
The extra tropical rainfall into the Atlantic reduced the salinity and were slowly propagated north over a period of decades.
All of these, and recent transient simulations (Held et al., 2005; Paeth and Feichter, 2006), found a substantial cooling that was strongest in the NH, with a consequent southward shift of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the associated tropical rainfall belt.
Nonetheless, NASA has given the official crown to Lake Maracaibo after crunching the numbers from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) onboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
Whist the southernmost regions towards the equator experience high temperatures, humidity and heavy tropical rainfall, the Andean areas which fall within Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia have distinct seasons: wet and dry.
Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.
These events have affected temperature by up to 16 °C in Greenland and have influenced tropical rainfall patterns.
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These areas of exceptionally warm waters coincide with the regions of above - average tropical rainfall.
«Therefore, our analysis of multicentury hydroclimate variability suggests that projections of tropical rainfall patterns, and global temperature extremes, will remain uncertain until paleoclimate records and models consistently capture the lower - frequency variability, and associated feedbacks, in the tropical Pacific.»
«Based on our findings, it appears that future Arctic warming and reduced sea - ice cover could have a strong effect on tropical rainfall,» says James Collins.
Kohyama and Wallace used 15 years of data collected by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2012 to show that the rain is indeed slightly lighter when the moon is high.
Because climate change is expected to increase tropical rainfall, this methane could be a new signal that «the tropics are changing fast,» says Euan Nisbet, a climate researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London — and a warning that methane may continue to rise as the world warms in a positive climate feedback.
The authors hypothesized that these atmospheric methane spikes were recording stimulations of the southern tropical wetlands due to southward shifts of tropical rainfall.
The satellite, called the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), flew over Indonesia in March 1998 during massive forest fires there.