Sentences with phrase «under global warming»

Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models.

Besides shedding light on previously contradictory findings, the outcome also points to the need for a research focus on how climate variables change while scanning across different scales and under global warming conditions.

Temperature extremes over these years is basically in line with what is expected under global warming - an increase in extremely warm episodes and a decline in extremely cold ones.

Taken together, a key conclusion is that the world, as perceived by human beings, will become hotter than that just indicated by air temperature under global warming.

But as our atmosphere warms under global warming, our oceans also are heating up, pushing cooler ocean layers deeper.

California winter precipitation change under global warming in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 Ensemble

Yes, drought (Dai 2010: Drought Under Global Warming for instance), floods, general bunching of rainfall into briefer, heavier rains, and how deep are Canadian soils?

«Increasing Water Cycle Extremes in California and Relation to ENSO Cycle under Global Warming.»

«How Strong Is Carbon Cycle - Climate Feedback under Global Warming?»

The Center has been active in getting the state of California to address these emissions along with those of other sources under the Global Warming Solutions Act, and we've published a report detailing the problem and its solutions.

The scientists show that the observed increase in unprecedented heavy rainfall generally fits with this thermodynamically expected increase under global warming.

The potential under global warming for increases in freshwater from melting ice and changes in precipitation patterns have heightened concerns about the AMOC and related climate effects in the future, researchers said.

Dai, A., 2012: Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models.

Eric Antebi of the Sierra Club, one of the conceivers of the project, told TreeHugger, «By making a future under global warming seem more present, we're hoping that ordinary citizens and leaders alike will be motivated to use the practical tools that we have to curb greenhouse gas emissions.»

They discussed the effect of variables being non-iid on the extreme value analysis, and after taking that into account, propose that changes in extreme precipitation are likely to be larger than the corresponding changes in annual mean precipitation under a global warming.

The authors commented, «These findings are in tune with model projections and some observations that indicate an increase in heavy rain events and a decrease in weak events under global warming scenarios.»

For DJF (figure 4a), the spatial extent of the maximum and minimum areas projected to experience the highest climate changes under a global warming of 4 °C is very different, highlighting the uncertainty that mostly originates from the different temperature changes projected by the models.

Adding heat to the ocean, in contrast, slows down the overturning circulation because ocean currents depend on temperature gradients — moving from warmer locations to cooler locations — that weaken under global warming as cooler waters heat up.

Finally, Superstorm Sandy had a trajectory that will become less likely under global warming (Barnes at al., 2013).

Cities can combat the urban heat island effect under global warming with trees, white roofs and other fixes

Collins's research looks at how desert ecosystems respond to climate variability, and he also has experiments simulating droughts that are predicted under global warming.

Some species will prosper under global warming whereas others may see their habitats shrink further

Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming

Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.

The predictable retreat of Arctic sea ice under global warming presents one last opportunity to adopt effective marine management practices before, rather than after, an ocean is opened up to development, says Lisa Speer of NRDC in New York City, who co-authored the workshop report.

For example, contrary to their assertion, current conditions in the eastern Pacific are almost the antithesis of projected conditions for most reef systems under global warming and ocean acidification.

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

We show that an interplay between winter temperature and population density can influence the persistence of a small passerine population under global warming.

Smaller cars are more expensive if equipped with hybrids, plus under a global warming regime, you would have to pay more money for the same size car.»

It is getting weaker because the Arctic under global warming is heated faster than the areas further south.

Synapse also modeled two additional scenarios (with and without the ANE pipeline) in which each New England state imposes more stringent emissions caps to comply with legal mandates or agreements under the Global Warming Solutions Act or similar legislation and targets.

al (2013) found a robust relationship between the efficiency of carbon release into the atmosphere with interannual variations of tropical temperature and the weakening in carbon storage under global warming.

The two papers in this week's Nature Climate Change are much more important as studies that calibrate or refine the process of measuring ocean heat dynamics under global warming than they are studies that change our view of global warming.

Additionally, changes in TLC reflection under global warming in the models correlate strongly with variations in TLC reflection inferred from temporal variations in simulations of the present climate alone (Fig. 2b).

We also plan to investigate future changes of the CBSMIZ under global warming scenarios.

That includes a new paper by MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel, suggesting that across the globe, hurricanes will be both more numerous and also more intense under global warming.

al, GRL, 2007,» Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming».

This will allow scientists to better understand past changes and better predict future changes in weather extremes over East Asia under global warming.