Sentences with phrase «which precipitation levels»

Not exact matches

This could result in higher rates for crop insurance, which could be detrimental to Oklahoma farmers as this farming season has already seen high levels of precipitation following a five - year drought.

During this time, precipitation and meltwater seeped into the exposed shelf areas and filled water tables, which were then covered up by the ocean as sea levels rose again.

Earlier spring - like weather means more of the precipitation will not be stored as long in the mountains, which can result in lower river and reservoir levels during late summer and early fall.

Another factor at play could be the delicate balance between precipitation and evaporation which Arctic lake levels depend on: warmer temperatures and higher winds could cause more evaporation.

In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, author Jonathan A. Sherratt uses a mathematical model to determine the levels of precipitation within which such pattern formation occurs.

The lakes they examined are so - called closed - basin lakes, which have rivers feeding into them, but not draining them, meaning that changes in lake levels are governed solely by precipitation and evaporation.

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

In addition, global sea level can fluctuate due to climate patterns such as El Niños and La Niñas (the opposing phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO) which influence ocean temperature and global precipitation patterns.

They could have affected sea - surface and land temperatures, atmospheric pressure systems and humidity levels — all of which may have affected the rates of precipitation in California in recent years.

Given the number of ways that things can go wrong with continued CO2 emissions (from ocean acidfication and sea level rise to simple warming, shifting precipitation patterns, release of buried carbon in perma - frost, and the possibility of higher climate sensitivities — which seem to be needed to account for glacial / inter-glacial transitions), crossing our fingers and carrying on with BAU seems nothing short of crazy to me.

The paper, which is based on a collection of interviews conducted with indigenous leaders in the Brazilian Amazon, says that native populations are reporting shifts in precipitation patterns, humidity, river levels, temperature, and fire and agricultural cycles.

A summary of the ability of AOGCMs to simulate the seasonally varying climate state is provided by Figure 8.11, which displays error measures that gauge how well recent models simulate precipitation, sea level pressure and surface temperature, compared with their predecessors.

Deforestation also contributes to decreased evapotranspiration, which lessens atmospheric moisture and precipitation levels.

Overall, however, scientists project an increase in precipitation in the Great Lakes region (with extreme events projected to contribute to this increase), which will contribute to maintenance of or an increase in Great Lakes water levels.

The team used changes in dust levels and stable water isotopes in the annual ice layers of the two - mile - long Greenland ice core, which was hauled from the massive ice sheet between 1998 to 2004, to chart past temperature and precipitation swings.

Example: IPCC calculation and projection of precipitation is in the order of +40 % to +60 %, which is clearly very wrong and misleading, so is surface temperature and sea level rise, to name a few.

These clouds then glaciate in higher levels, which could result in either more or less vigorous precipitation formation depending on the background aerosol levels and atmospheric stability (Khain et al., 2004).

The «500 mb level is often referred to as the steering level as most weather systems and precipitation follow the winds at this level,» which is around 18,000 feet.

Please point out any errors in my logic with this as I am always trying to deepen my understanding.Also just read an article in yale e360 which states that the artic tundra has the same precipitation level as a desert.

The River Lavant valley in Austria, which has a low level of precipitation and a limited number of springs, has already been affected by water shortages during hot summers, the EEA writes.

[A] nthropogenic climate change is expected to lead to a greater incidence of high - intensity hurricanes, which together with rising sea level, will produce increased risk of storm surge flooding, while hurricanes are projected to produce substantially more precipitation as the atmosphere and oceans warm.

The magnitude of sea - level estimates for the past 100 million years rely heavily on foraminiferal calcite oxygen isotopes (δ18O), which are influenced by temperature, evaporation and precipitation, and diagenesis2.