Sentences with phrase «very low precipitation»

Recent work suggests that the aggregate combination of extremely high temperatures and very low precipitation during the 2012 — 2014 event is the most severe in over a millennium (12).

* Extremely high geopotential heights (a vertically aggregated measure of atmospheric temperature) over the northeastern Pacific Ocean are historically linked to very low precipitation in California.

Not exact matches

«The cold air mass helps to cool the warm and wet mass, causing significant precipitation at low levels,» explains Gascón, lead author of the study, who reiterates that this situation does not happen very frequently in winter.

It seems likely that a warming world will change precipitation patterns that would severely disrupt agriculture, but... the models are pretty bad at precipitation so the certainty on the detail is very low.

The Nile, like the other great rivers of Africa (notably, the Congo, Niger, and Sénégal), became very reduced, if not totally blocked, by silt and desert sand during the low - precipitation, arid phases of the Pleistocene.

In addition, climate change is very likely to lead to more frequent extreme heat events and daily precipitation extremes over most areas of North America, more frequent low snow years, and shifts towards earlier snowmelt runoff over much of the western US and Canada (high confidence).

At very low temperatures, heavy water has been greatly depleted and precipitation is isotopically light.

It is an awfully long process that could take place even under much lower snow precipitation rates as now, as long as the balance is heavily tilted towards ice build up, with very little melting.

Seasonally simulated precipitation anomalies, therefore, are very likely lower bounds on what might actually fall during the coming winter if the simulated atmospheric setup actually occurs.

... «stations experiencing low, moderate and heavy annual precipitation did not show very different precipitation trends,»... «deserts / jungles are neither expanding nor shrinking due to changes in precipitation patterns.»

Climate model simulations for the 21st century are consistent in projecting precipitation increases in high latitudes (very likely) and parts of the tropics, and decreases in some subtropical and lower mid-latitude regions (likely).

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's June 2008 report «Climate Change and Water» precipitation will very likely, which the IPCC defines as more than a 90 percent probability, increase in tropical and high - latitude regions and will likely (more than 66 percent probability) decrease in subtropical and low - to mid-latitude regions.