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So Brazil has 1,782 millimeters per year of precipitation of rain.
If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation.
You might think that it snows all the time at the Poles, but Antarctica is so dry, it's considered a desert with annual precipitation of only 200 millimeters along the coast and far less inland.
Some of that heat generates evaporation, which creates clouds and then eventually leads to precipitation.
If you think about Antarctica, it's technically a desert, it gets so little precipitation.
That is changing local temperature and precipitation patterns, and that has consequences for the agricultural productivity in many parts of the world.
And it's not just local changes in temperature and precipitation, it's the extremes.
95 percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking, and that's because the precipitation patterns and the temperature patterns are changing.
We have all of the precipitation data and the temperature data.
That's very important because the humidity and precipitation tell you whether you've got standing pools of water for the mosquitoes to breed.
More and more scientists are beginning to suspect that global warming has caused the radically changed patterns of precipitation now seen across China.
But the IPCC tells a different story: the evidence cannot even reliably indicate whether increased precipitation has, in fact, affected the floods’ magnitude and frequency (in UN-speak, “low confidence at the global scale regarding even the sign of these changes”).
Increased precipitation also has positive consequences – most significantly, more fresh water for a thirsty world.
And, in some cases, such as increasing precipitation, global warming will have both positive and negative effects.
In some areas, modestly warmer temperatures could produce higher crop yields if associated changes in precipitation patterns are not adverse and/or irrigation remains viable.
The IPCC reports remind governments and the general public that climate-change adaptation involves more than planning for changes in average temperature, sea level, and precipitation.
And, although this is the most severe precipitation to hit the region since 1911, the flooding was also the result of human error: the irresponsible and unplanned urbanization that has transformed India in recent decades.
Moreover, the brutal paradox of climate change is that heavy precipitation is occurring more often as well, increasing the risk of flooding.
The consequences are numerous and profound: acid precipitation, photochemical “smog” and global warming, among others.
And, indeed, the water cycle – the processes of precipitation, evaporation, freezing, melting, and condensation that circulate water from clouds to land to the ocean and back – is inextricably linked to the energy exchanges among the land, ocean, and atmosphere that determine Earth’s climate.
Similarly, “micro-catchment rainwater harvesting” – which uses particular slopes and contours to increase runoff from rain and concentrate it in a planting basin where it is effectively “stored” in the soil – is useful for dryland ecosystems where most precipitation is lost.
For example, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns are already driving up the price of coffee.
Although precipitation may be affected, higher temperatures would enable agricultural production in colder regions, and CO2 is known to bolster plant growth, even in dry areas.
But global warming overall means more precipitation.
More than a millennium of changing temperature and precipitation patterns, all vital to crop production, has put the planet on a path toward increasingly severe storms, droughts, and floods.
Astrophysicist Adam Frank succinctly explained: “greater warmth means more moisture in the air which means stronger precipitation.”
For instance, changes are taking place in precipitation patterns, with a trend toward higher precipitation levels in the world’s upper latitudes and lower precipitation in some sub-tropical and tropical regions, as well as in the Mediterranean area.
The number of extreme precipitation events is also increasing – and are increasingly widespread.
Current models predict that SRM deployment would alter global precipitation patterns, damage the ozone layer, and undermine the livelihoods of millions of people.
Although we are not certain about the exact effects, many scientists believe that total annual precipitation will increase, but that its seasonality and the frequency of extremes may also increase.