Sentences with phrase «understand precipitation changes»

In the context of future changes in the atmospheric hydrological cycle, understanding precipitation changes in the subtropics is of particular importance given

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Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

As Cobb explained, climate scientists still lack a good understanding of how climate change will alter precipitation patterns.

«If we can understand the mechanisms that caused these changes, then we can better predict how precipitation might change in the future.»

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

But beyond the increased amount of precipitation, Wehner adds, «this study more generally increases our understanding of how the various processes in extreme storms can change as the overall climate warms.»

This study advances understanding of the ice nucleation processes, especially under the presence of pollution emissions, which ultimately will contribute to knowledge about global changes in precipitation.

He has been an integral part of field campaigns that have changed the fundamental understanding of cloud and precipitation processes, including satellite studies that reveal how these processes are distributed globally, influencing the global climate.

Since joining UW in 1972, Houze has built a career on changing and improving how the community understands areas such as tropical meteorology, precipitation processes, and cloud dynamics.

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

Attribution of hurricane characteristics to climate change is extremely challenging, and the authors have focussed only on the precipitation response, which is perhaps the most well understood, and is particularly important given the nature of the flooding in Texas due to Harvey.

A team of researchers has now explored precipitation changes off the coast of western Indonesia during the last 24,000 years with the aim to better understand patterns and dynamics of local precipitation.

And while that might make sense for the current situation, it is much harder to understand for forecasts one week out (where the chance of precipitation might change from 80 % to 40 % to 20 % to 60 % in a one - hour span for a period six days in the future).

Figuring this out will be important for understanding regional climate change — is persistent drought in the American West going to be the result, or will regional precipitation become highly variable in space and time?

Understanding past changes in the characteristics of such events, including recent increases in the intensity of heavy precipitation events over a large part of the Northern Hemisphere land area (3 — 5), is critical for reliable projections of future changes.

Understanding how the global - mean precipitation rate will change in response to a climate forcing is a useful thing to know.

It also enables a better understanding of precipitation and intensity changes of these storms.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

Alex would probably say that you need to change «never ice» to «more precipitation and more snow» in your comment JimD and you would be much closer to understanding.

But the point is that, such a cascade doesn't want us to understand simply the relationship between increased precipitation and mosquitoes, but between climate change and death.

However, to assess climate response beyond surface temperature change (e.g., changes in precipitation, latent heat release from surface, or in the surface heat and moisture balance), it becomes necessary to understand the surface radiative forcing for all forcings.

Although there is clearly value in understanding possible changes in precipitation, our results highlight the fact that efforts to understand drought without examining the role of temperature miss a critical contributor to drought risk.

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

The FLOR model has been used extensively to understand predictability, change and mechanisms of tropical cyclones (Vecchi et al. 2014), Arctic sea ice (Msadek et al. 2014), precipitation and temperature over land (Jia et al. 2015), drought (Delworth et al., 2015), extratropical storms (Yang et al. 2015), the Great Plains Low Level Jet (Krishnamurthy et al. 2015), and the global response to increasing greenhouse gases (Winton et al. 2014).

The site, designed to exploit grasslands as models for understanding how ecosystems may respond to climate change, hosts a number of studies of the potential effects from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, elevated temperature, increased precipitation, and increased nitrogen deposition.

A more important omission is discussion, understanding and assessment of how precipitation is going to change.

While most scientists agree climate change poses risks related to extreme weather, sea - level rise, temperature extremes, and precipitation changes, current scientific understanding provides limited guidance on the likelihood, magnitude, or time frame of these events.