Sentences with phrase «type of climate variability»

The knowledge gap may just have narrowed, however, with the publication of a new study in Nature (one of two we're reporting on this week, as it happens) that appears to move the explanation for one type of climate variability from the natural to the human camp.

The word «Natural» in the title leads me to expect that there are at least two types of climate variability: Natural and (presumably) Not - natural.

Not exact matches

The paradox is that this season stands in such stark contrast to the past 11 years of drought, highlighting the types of variability that climate change can wreak on the hydrological cycle.

«Given the high variability of climate in this region, we should not be totally surprised if very wet 1980s - type conditions return at some point during our lives,» Williams said.

There are two types of natural variability: those external and internal to the climate system.

Nature (with hopefully some constructive input from humans) will decide the global warming question based upon climate sensitivity, net radiative forcing, and oceanic storage of heat, not on the type of multi-decadal time scale variability we are discussing here.

To show, in a peer - reviewed scientifically defensible way that there is no reason to expect the climate to warm in a monotonic type fashion, that there is natural variability along with anthropogenic forced warming and we shouldn't expect each year to be warmer than the next or even a run of 10 years always to show warming.

In many cases, it is now often possible to make and defend quantitative statements about the extent to which human - induced climate change (or another causal factor, such as a specific mode of natural variability) has influenced either the magnitude or the probability of occurrence of specific types of events or event classes.»

Climate change can have two types of causes: external forcing or internal variability in the climate Climate change can have two types of causes: external forcing or internal variability in the climate climate system.

It is important to note that as the planet continues to warm, new high temperature records and some other types of extremes will increasingly occur, but where they occur in a given year will not be predictable due to natural modes of climate variability.

Of all the factors where uncertainties in forest hydrology and runoff remain, perhaps the most significant were the effects of soil types, long - term climate variability, and climate changOf all the factors where uncertainties in forest hydrology and runoff remain, perhaps the most significant were the effects of soil types, long - term climate variability, and climate changof soil types, long - term climate variability, and climate change.

Importantly, the changes in cereal yield projected for the 2020s and 2080s are driven by GHG - induced climate change and likely do not fully capture interannual precipitation variability which can result in large yield reductions during dry periods, as the IPCC (Christensen et al., 2007) states: ``... there is less confidence in the ability of the AOGCMs (atmosphere - ocean general circulation models) to generate interannual variability in the SSTs (sea surface temperatures) of the type known to affect African rainfall, as evidenced by the fact that very few AOGCMs produce droughts comparable in magnitude to the Sahel droughts of the 1970s and 1980s.»

The goals of this regional - scale monitoring program are to characterize the means, variabilities, and trends of climate - forcing properties of different types of aerosols, and to understand the factors that control these properties.

While natural variability continues to play a key role in extreme weather, climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense.

Present - day ocean models do have some rudimentary capability to model El Nino - like variability, but they are not yet able to reliably simulate decadal - type variability, even though 1000 - year climate runs exhibit variability over a broad range of time scales.

Further, large magnitude variability may require revisiting the types and magnitudes of imposed forcings thought to be responsible for the observed 20th century climate trajectory (12).

Further, large magnitude variability may require revisiting the types and magnitudes of imposed forcings thought to be responsible for the observed 20th century climate trajectory.