Sentences with phrase «while changes in rainfall»

Higher temperatures will have an impact on yields while changes in rainfall could affect both crop quality and quantity.»

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While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

The survey indicates that more than 80 percent of households in the Koshi River basin in the east of Nepal notice a change in temperature, while about 90 percent note changes in rainfall.

It shows that while water in rivers and lakes would have disappeared as the climate changed due to variations in Earth's orbit, freshwater springs fed by groundwater could have stayed active for up to 1000 years without rainfall.

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According to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the wind speed and rainfall rates in tropical cyclones are projected to increase during the 21st century, even while the total number of tropical cyclones remains nearly steady, or even decreases.

Since the forex market is dependent on the currency prices, smallest instances like rainfall to natural catastrophe, from little political turbulence to change of governments, all while leaving an effect on the currency rates can also make it the most unpredictable market in the world.

While it is «likely» that anthropogenic influences are behind the changes in cold days and warm days, there is only «medium confidence» that they are behind changes in extreme rainfall events, and «low confidence» in attributing any changes in tropical cyclone activity to greenhouse gas emissions or anything else humanity has done.

While there may be long term changes in rainfall, blaming it on global warming is premature, especially since long term drought happened in the west well before the industrial age.

This time, the leaked draft states simply that while «a reduction in precipitation is likely over North Africa... projected rainfall change over sub-Saharan Africa is uncertain.»

While rainfall in the region is consistent with the emerging El Niño, the unprecedented amounts suggest a possible climate change signal, where a warming atmosphere becomes more saturated with water vapor and capable of previously unimagined downpours.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

While the study — «The hidden risks of climate change: An increase in property damage from drought and soil subsidence in Europe» — doesn't cite overall climate change as a direct cause for the increase in soil subsidence, it describes a strong link to the condition that will «magnify these risks as factors such as rising average temperatures and more erratic rainfall continue to alter soil conditions.»

Even while identifying some of the observed change in climatic behaviour, such as a 0.4 C increase in surface temperature over the past century, or about 1 mm per year sea level rise in Northern Indian Ocean, or wider variation in rainfall patterns, the document notes that no firm link between the do...

While the correlation displays decadal - scale variability similar to changes in the interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO), the LDSSS record suggests rainfall in the modern instrumental era (1910 — 2009 ad) is below the long - term average.»

In the northeastern United States, for example, climate change is likely to bring increased annual rainfall, while in the Pacific Northwest, summer rainfall is expected to decrease, the EPA saiIn the northeastern United States, for example, climate change is likely to bring increased annual rainfall, while in the Pacific Northwest, summer rainfall is expected to decrease, the EPA saiin the Pacific Northwest, summer rainfall is expected to decrease, the EPA said.

While it is impossible at this point in time to know how much the August 2016 rainfall was affected by climate change, it is clear that these events will be more common in the future.

«While measurements indicate the total amount of monsoon rainfall in Nepal has not changed, the timing of those rains has altered», says Dr Bed Mani Dahal of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Kathmandu University.

According to Delworth, in monsoon - dependent regions stretching from Africa to India, the changing AMOC will «move the tropical rain belts further north, so the Sahel of Africa will see the mean rainfall decrease as those rain belts move further north as the North Atlantic warms, while a colder North Atlantic pushes the rain belts further south.»

* «UK rainfall shows large year to year variability, making trends hard to detect» * «While connections can be made between climate change and dry seasons in some parts of the world, there is currently no clear evidence of such a link to recent dry periods in the UK» * «The attribution of these changes to anthropogenic global warming requires climate models of sufficient resolution to capture storms and their associated rainfall.»

While opinions differ among scientists over the specific changes global warming will effect, the general consensus is that temperatures will rise 3 - 10 °F statewide by century's end, potentially leading to a drop in rainfall across Southern California; this would put at great risk a variety of animal and plant species that live in the deserts east of Los Angeles.

While the initial focus of Weather@home ANZ is on extreme events that occurred in 2013, simulations will also be performed for other years, allowing scientists to assess better the possible role of climate change in such events as the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia in 2009, the record rainfall event in Golden Bay, New Zealand in 2011 and the record rainfall events in eastern Australia in 2010 and 2011.

For example, while the report does find that three independent studies «did not find conclusive evidence for the impact of human - caused climate change on the ongoing rainfall deficit in California,» it does not claim this with certainty.