Sentences with phrase «while precipitation levels»

What's interesting is that the blue oak data showed that while precipitation levels in California have been low over the past 3 years, the levels haven't been unprecedented.

Not exact matches

The drought in California has been building for more than four years, as winter precipitation deficits slowed streams to a trickle and sent reservoir levels dipping, while unusually warm temperatures increased water demand.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

In the Bay Area, conditions will not be quite as favorable as in the Central Valley, but while precipitation will probably start out as rain under 2000 feet snow levels will drop quickly on the back end of the precipitation band associated with the cold front, possibly bringing some snow accumulations down to 1000 feet and a brief rain / snow mix to even lower elevations.

Finally, while economics may be critical to your definition of «catastrophic» anthropogenic global warming, economics says nothing about the science underlying the projections of sea level rise, the physics of Arctic amplification, changes to albedo that lead to greater warming that may lead to significant releases of methane clathrate deposits, regional projections of reduce (or enhanced) precipitation, and so on.

Along with the hot summer, annual precipitation for 2003 was as much as 12 inches (300 millimeters) below normal, leaving most of Europe in a drought.21 Damages to the agricultural sector were estimated at more than U.S. $ 16 billion (more than $ 13 billion).3, 21 Many areas saw an increase in wildfires, while low water levels in major rivers led to problems ranging from irrigating crops to cooling power plants.4, 21,22

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

While derived from sea surface temperature data, the PDO index is well correlated with many records of North Pacific and Pacific Northwest climate and ecology, including sea level pressure, winter land — surface temperature and precipitation, and stream flow.

While winter precipitation came in near record levels, snow pack did not.

[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.

While most scientists agree climate change poses risks related to extreme weather, sea - level rise, temperature extremes, and precipitation changes, current scientific understanding provides limited guidance on the likelihood, magnitude, or time frame of these events.