Sentences with phrase «understand precipitation patterns»

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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.

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.

Therefore, understanding current and future patterns of extreme precipitation is central to NOAA's mission and highly relevant to society.

In order to understand California's precipitation patterns and the influence of El Niño better, Bor - Ting Jong from the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and her colleagues used sea surface temperature and weather data from as far back as 1901.

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.