Sentences with phrase «with rainfall increasing»

which says «Rayner (2006) demonstrated that, apart from the northwest of the country (where increased cloudiness associated with the rainfall increase may play a role), the observed decline in pan evaporation was clearly related to declines in wind speed.

Not exact matches

«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

With the rainfall in 2016 there was increased scope to improve the health and resilience of aquatic ecosystems using a top up of Commonwealth environmental water within the Namoi River Valley.

Along with Niagara County, Orleans and Monroe counties are also severely affected by the rising water levels along the shoreline, caused by an increased amount of rainfall this season along with the controversial Plan 2014, an international agreement between the United States and Canada to regulate the water levels in Lake Ontario.

Increases in average temperature and rainfall were associated in Zanzibar with higher numbers of cholera cases within a definite time period.

«Our new data however, contrasts with sub-Saharan Africa and demonstrates that the South African climate responded in the opposite direction, with increasing rainfall, that can be associated with a globally occurring southward shift of the tropical monsoon belt.»

Areas of increased rainfall are shown in green, with darker colors representing a greater increase.

With more rainfall, vegetation increases, which then fuels rodent populations.

The scientists warn that climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns — with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from the El Niño, along with a devastated infrastructure and an influx of people into larger cities, likely caused the spike in Zika cases, Sorensen said.

The warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from El Niño have previously been associated with a higher likelihood of dengue outbreaks.

With no increase in the region's rainfall, the change «can only come from melting permafrost and glaciers.»

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

They face challenges from an increasing population; land that's overfarmed and worn out; and climate change, bringing with it worsening drought or increased rainfall.

Dust that absorbed heat more efficiently was linked with increases in monsoon rainfall.

The new research confirms heavy rainfall events are increasing across the Gulf Coast region because of human interference with the climate system.

The concentration of these magnetic minerals is enhanced with increasing rainfall and can be used as a record of past precipitation history.

«Looking at weather and dengue incidents over longer periods, we found a similar strong link between how increased rainfall and warmer temperatures resulting from the reoccurring el Niño phenomenon are associated with elevated risks of dengue epidemics.

As well as this, increased average temperatures and more erratic rainfall could become be the «new normal» according to the report — with significantly less rainfall in the Mediterranean, Madagascar and the Cerrado - Pantanal in Argentina.

The results showed an increasing relative risk of dengue with increasing rainfall starting at above 50 mm per week.

Defining an extreme El Niño as one with a massive reorganisation of rainfall, where the usually dry regions in South America experience a tenfold increase in rain, they found that climate models do agree after all.

It also showed the potential for putting existing water supplies on a roller coaster, with a several - inch increase expected in rainfall in some years compared to the annual average, as well as some years of decrease over the same period.

For example, the levels of flavonols decreased in Red Baron onions from 2010, the year with the lowest temperatures, but increased in 2011 and 2014 when temperatures were higher and rainfall was down.

Simultaneous exposure to toxic air pollutants can worsen allergic responses.24, 156,25,157 Extreme rainfall and rising temperatures can also foster indoor air quality problems, including the growth of indoor fungi and molds, with increases in respiratory and asthma - related conditions.27, 28,29,30 Asthma prevalence (the percentage of people who have ever been diagnosed with asthma and still have asthma) increased nationwide from 7.3 % in 2001 to 8.4 % in 2010.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

Climate change intersects with hurricanes by increasing storm rainfall, intensity, and surge.

The team found that warming had increased the chances of such extreme rainfall from a storm like Desmond in the region by about 40 percent, with a full range of between 5 and 80 percent.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

In the central United States, for example, observational data indicate that rainfall increased, surface air temperature decreased, and surface humidity increased during the summer over the course of the 20th century concurrently with increases in both agricultural production and global GHG emissions.

Results of both regional climate model simulations and observational analyses suggest that much of the observed rainfall increase — as well as the decrease in temperature and increase in humidity — is attributable to agricultural intensification in the central United States, with natural variability and GHG emissions playing secondary roles.

The nationwide trends of days with one -, two -, and three - inch rainfalls are also increasing.

The number of days each year with extreme rainfall is, on average, increasing in every region of the U.S.

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

«With storm surge and heavy rainfall increasing and climate and sea level rise, the system is just not working,» he said.

Global temperatures have increased by ∼ 0.2 °C per decade over the last three decades16, possibly leading to an acceleration of the global water cycle with more intense rainfall events17, more severe and widespread droughts18 (despite drought frequencies appearing unchanged19) and regional humidity variations20.

Despite models predicting increased rainfall with climate change, the region has collapsed into drought — a puzzle known as the East African paradox

In the first continent - wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing «pyrodiversity» boosts the variety of species of mammals by around 20 percent and of birds by 30 percent in savannas with high rainfall.

In the long term, changes in sea level were of minor importance to rainfall patterns in north western Sumatra With the end of the last Ice Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the world..

Observational evidence indicates that the frequency of the heaviest rainfall events has likely increased within many land regions in general agreement with model simulations that indicate that rainfall in the heaviest events is likely to increase in line with atmospheric water vapour concentration.

The annual average rainfall on Madeira Island is greater on the northern coast than on the southern coast and increases with altitude; however Ponta Delgada generally has less rainfall compared to other north - facing areas at the same altitude.

German summers tend to be warm and sunny with temperatures falling between 20 °C and 30 °C although rainfall increases slightly during June, July and August.

The probability of rainfall increases slightly as the month progresses, with the likelihood of rainfall rising from 43 % on September 1st up to 49 % by September 30th.

Darwin's wet season lasts from November until April and while it may make some tourist activities less appealing due to the humidity and increased rainfall, the region comes alive with spectacular waterfalls and lush green rainforest.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

The two new papers deal with the attribution of a single flood event (Pall et al), and the attribution of increased intensity of rainfall across the Northern Hemisphere (Min et al).

Re # 37: Ray, the information I have suggests the mid-Holocene warming was mostly global, with increased rainfall nearly everywhere (except western North America).

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

* Over the last decade or two, rainfall has been markedly below average in our temperate south - west, south and east, and this along with increased average temperatures has caused a major decrease in runoff from our catchments.

One shouldn't take this picture too literally as a prediction for any particular region, but it help one understand why the signal in rainfall will be positive in some region and negative in others, with the pattern tending to increase gradients.