Sentences with phrase «weather and climate variability»

cCASHh identified a range of options that have been taken or could be taken by European policy - makers to prevent, prepare and respond to the effects of weather and climate variability on people's health.

(v) conduct research to improve forecasting, characterization, and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities, including its effects on agricultural production, natural resources, energy supply and demand, recreation, and other sectors of the economy; and

Requires the Climate Service Program to: (1) analyze the effects of weather and climate on communities; (2) carry out observations, data collection, and monitoring of atmospheric and oceanic conditions; (3) provide information and technical support to governmental efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change; (4) develop systems for the management and dissemination of data; (5) conduct research to improve forecasting and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities; and (6) develop tools to facilitate the use of climate information by local and regional stakeholders.

This rapid transition towards renewables makes the energy production, transmission and distribution increasingly sensitive to weather and climate variability.

Not exact matches

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

«Extreme weather conditions and climate change account for 40 % of global wheat production variability.»

Schultz, a professor of synoptic meteorology, and co-author Dr Vladimir Janković, a science historian specialising in weather and climate, say the short - term, large variability from year to year in high - impact weather makes it difficult, if not impossible, to draw conclusions about the correlation to longer - term climate change.

The oscillation is a pattern of climate variability akin to El Niño and La Niña — weather patterns caused by periodic warming and cooling of ocean temperatures in the Pacific — except it is longer - lived.

«Communicating the reality of climate change to the public is hampered by the large natural variability of weather and climate,» the Goddard scientists wrote in the draft, which was circulated by Hansen Friday evening and posted on the ClimateProgress.org blog shortly after.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

Johansson, M. A., D. A. T. Cummings, and G. E. Glass, 2009: Multiyear climate variability and dengue — El Niño southern oscillation, weather, and dengue incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Thailand: A longitudinal data analysis.

Multiyear climate variability and dengue — El Niño southern oscillation, weather, and dengue incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Thailand: A longitudinal data analysis

On this latter scale teleconnections manifest as a response of middle - latitude weather to the dominant modes of variability of the tropics (the Madden - Julian Oscillation and the Boreal Summer Intra-seasonal Oscillations, which similar to El Niño and La Niña characterize variations of climate but on shorter time scales).

Teleconnections explain a large fraction of climatic variability in distant locations, variability that can not be accounted by the local physical processes, making this a very interesting lens through which to explain weather and climate.

Not only do the vagaries of weather patterns and ocean currents make it hard to see climate changes, but the variability in what are often termed the Earth System components complicates the picture enormously.

Jiacan has worked on several projects on climate dynamics, including the response of large - scale circulations in the warming climate, its effects on regional weather patterns and extreme events, tropical influence on mid-latitude weather, and dynamical mechanisms of sub-seasonal variability of mid-latitude jet streams.

Every component of agriculture — from prices to plant pollinators and crop pests — exhibits complex relationships to climate, depending on the location, weather variability, and agricultural and economic practices and policies.

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

Effective adaptation measures required in agriculture due to climate change and weather variability during growing season

It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world's recently wacky weather and whether it's a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

Areas of expertise: Global and regional climate change and variability; analysis of extreme climate and weather events (e.g. precipitation, drought, tropical and mid-latitude storms); climatic signal decomposition methods

While natural variability continues to play a key role in extreme weather, climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making heat waves more frequent and more intense.

Other sources of climate variability, like El Niño and La Niña, also help set up prevailing winter weather patterns.

«It is widely projected that as the planet warms, climate and weather variability will increase.

The model ensemble should average out internal variability of the climate / weather system and leave only the forced response.

Averaging smoothes out day - to - day and year - to - year natural weather variability and extremes, removing much of the chaotic behavior, revealing any underlying long term trends in climate, such as a long term increase or decrease in temperature, or long term shifts in precipitation patterns.

On the very small scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the same as a change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).

# 15 John P. Reisman says: vukcevic you basically don't understand the difference between climate, natural variability, weather, and of course human influenced climate forcing.

That in turn may indicate you basically don't understand the difference between climate, natural variability, weather, and of course human influenced climate forcing.

«Changes in the variability of weather and the frequency of extremes will generally have more impact than changes in the mean climate at a particular location.

There can / will be local and regional, latitudinal, diurnal and seasonal, and internal variability - related deviations to the pattern (in temperature and in optical properties (LW and SW) from components (water vapor, clouds, snow, etc.) that vary with weather and climate), but the global average effect is at least somewhat constrained by the global average vertical distribution of solar heating, which requires the equilibrium net convective + LW fluxes, in the global average, to be sizable and upward at all levels from the surface to TOA, thus tending to limit the extent and magnitude of inversions.)

Long - term climate variability is the range of temperatures and weather patterns experienced by the Earth over a scale of thousands of years.

For example, after an extreme weather event, scientists often carry out single attribution studies to determine how the likelihood of such an event could have been influenced by climate change and short - term climate variability.

Dr Curry's DOD Proposal re: «extreme weather events, climate variability and change, and their implications for regional security» might well address consequences of shifts to either hot or cold.

The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is heavily influenced by natural climate variability.

Although the atmosphere has been widely studied and modelled (particularly by weather forecasters), large uncertainties remain concerning climate variability.

Short - term climate variability is a term typically used to describe the natural range of temperatures and weather patterns experienced by the Earth within shorter periods.

Much of what is of concern to the military is extreme weather events (e.g. Pakistan floods) driven by natural climate variability and random weather roulette (concerns about sea level rise and the opening of the Arctic Ocean are linked more closely to AGW)

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world's recently wacky weather and whether it's a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

The intent of the working group is to spearhead a dedicated effort across the national and international climate communities to advance progress on identifying anthropogenic influences on weather and climate amidst the «noise» of internal variability.

The report highlights that eliminating poverty is central to both development and adaptation, since poverty exacerbates vulnerability to weather variability as well as climate change.

Before joining NIDIS, Molly was an extension climate specialist with Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) and the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), where she provided science - based information and educational opportunities to stakeholders across the Midwest on the topics of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate climate specialist with Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) and the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), where she provided science - based information and educational opportunities to stakeholders across the Midwest on the topics of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate Climate Center (MRCC), where she provided science - based information and educational opportunities to stakeholders across the Midwest on the topics of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate climate variability, and climate climate change.

The document starts with a basic climate primer defining the concepts of weather, climate, climate variability and climate change.

Those changes are not easy to measure or reproduce with climate models, and some researchers think natural variability or changes in the tropics are more important drivers of weather extremes in the mid-latitudes.

His research focusses on understanding and predicting climate variability and change in the polar regions, including the response of Arctic extreme weather to climate change.

He is a modeller and climate analysist investigating the variability of weather and climate features in the higher southern latitudes.

Christy has become very reliable for arguing that anything and everything related to climate change probably just boils down to natural variability, as he recently told US Congress was the case with regards to the frequency of extreme weather events, contrary to the body of peer - reviewed scientific literature.