Sentences with phrase «warm season length»
Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases by altering conditions — such as local temperatures, rainfall amounts, and warm season length — that affect the development and spread of disease vectors and the pathogens they carry.
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In warm summers, relatively more sediment is deposited thanks to more meltwater from the glaciers that create these lakes, and the abundance of algae in the sediment layers reveals the length of growing seasons.
Ziska, L. et al., 2011: Recent warming by latitude associated with increased length of ragweed pollen season in central North America.
Also, since they are ankle length, you can style them with booties or pumps this season and still be quite warm.
Seasonally, winter has warmed the fastest, causing those in the winter sports industry to consider how to manage future changes in snow season length, and amount, reliability, and quality of accumulated snowfall.
This phase change of water causes a powerful local feedback, which, together with moderate global warming, can substantially increase the length of the melt season.
Large - scale warming in the Arctic [Johannessen et al., 2004] has resulted in an extension of the length of the summer melt season over sea ice [Smith, 1998; Rigor et al., 2000], thawing permafrost [Osterkamp and Romanovsky, 1999], and near - coastal thinning and overall shrinkage of the Greenland ice sheet [Krabill et al., 1999; Lemke et al., 2007, and references therein].
Our results indicated that vegetation greenness in the Great Basin increased significantly during the study period... [C] limate warming played a strong role in extending GSL [growing season length] that in turn resulted in the upward trend in mean vegetation greenness during 1982 — 2011.
Growing season length is related to number of frost days, and has been projected to increase as climate warms.
Recent warming by latitude associated with increased length of ragweed pollen season in central North America.
Conversely, food production in northern countries, especially in industrialized nations, could increase due to the effects of global warming increasing the length of the growing season.
Potential impacts of 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming on rainfall onset, cessation and length of rainy season in West Africa (open access)
All of these parameters show what we would expect in a warming climate: daily minimum, maximum, and average temperatures are increasing, cooling degree days, growing degree days and growing season length are increasing, heating degree days are decreasing, the counts of warm days are increasing and cool days are decreasing.
Global warming is likely to increase the number of people at risk of dengue epidemics by expanding both the area suitable for the mosquito vectors and the length of dengue transmission season in temperate areas.
Their projections show an increase to growing season length, vegetation productivity (outside of the southeastern US) and biomass, as well as increased plant water - use efficiency.They also find that vegetation feedbacks may increase warming in summer at higher latitudes and reduce summer warming at lower latitudes.