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The tropical zones have the highest number of storm events followed by the temperate climate. In a recent study, [13] researchers from 63 countries combined 30-minutes rainfall data in order to estimate the global rainfall erosivity (an index combining the amount, frequency and intensity of rainfall). The arid and cold climate zones have very ...
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
The three GCMs whose grid points correlated most with the study area were then used to project the climate for the period 2005-2050. [11] The results are the following: All models project a temperature increase by about 1-1.3 °C by 2050. Warming is projected to be stronger in the summer months. Concerning precipitation, the models do not agree.
It is expected that over the course of the 21st century, the annual global precipitation over land will increase due to a higher global surface temperature. [7]: 85 A warming climate makes extremely wet and very dry occurrences more severe. There can also be changes in atmospheric circulation patterns. This will affect the regions and frequency ...
The system has found a major use in assessing the potential changes in natural vegetation patterns due to global warming. [3] The three major axes of the barycentric subdivisions are: precipitation (annual, logarithmic) biotemperature (mean annual, logarithmic) potential evapotranspiration ratio (PET) to mean total annual precipitation.
From 2000 to 2021, mean annual precipitation in the region was 8.3% below the 1950–1999 average and the temperature was 0.91 °C above average. The megadrought that began in 2000 was the driest 22-year period since at least 800 and, if it persists through 2022, will match the duration of the severe late-1500s megadrought.
A study of 2020's storms of at least tropical storm-strength concluded that human-induced climate change increased extreme 3-hourly storm rainfall rates by 10%, and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts by 5%, and for hurricane-strength storms the figures increased to 11% and 8%. [35]
Climatic statistics cited in this article are for the period 1982-2012 and may become inaccurate in the future because of climate change and global warming. [27] Average annual temperatures rose by 1 °C (1.8 °F) from 1960 until 2016 and are predicted to increase by an additional 2 to 3 °C (3.6 to 5.4 °F) by 2065.