less snow and ice to reflect incoming sunlight, warmer oceans releasing heat into the atmosphere later into the fall, and increasing winter cloudiness, which moderates cold conditions. Reference ...

Like a real river flowing downhill, these atmospheric rivers use the jet to draw water in the atmosphere from the tropics up to the mid-latitudes. These atmospheric rivers provided the moisture for th ...

with the fact that warmer air temperatures fuel more evaporation, which leads to a wetter atmosphere. Scientists have measured a significant increase in specific humidity (the volume of water vapor) o ...

lead to large differences among models. In addition, unlike the large-scale mechanisms in the atmosphere that influence moisture changes in subtropics and in the high-latitudes, changes in precipitati ...

is overwhelmingly due to the increase in heat-trapping gases that humans are adding to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. In fact, over the last five decades, natural factors (solar forcing and v ...

level rise accelerating along the East and Gulf Coasts, these problems are projected to intensify in the coming years, and they are likely to have a disproportionate impact on low-income and minority ...

Arctic climate issues and is a direct follow-up to the first Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA): Climate Change and the Cryosphere assessment report published in 2011. The SWIPA 201 ...

This can be updated by the educator by using GISS temperatures, which are available monthly. CO2 plots in the activity are a bit out of date. Using more recent data is important to address the lesser ...

of current management practice, provide a pathway for slowing the rate of deleterious change in resource conditions. URL to Main Site for Report :. Issuing Agencies :. U. S. Forest Service |. Rocky Mo ...

Rockies Adaptation Partnership identified climate change issues relevant to resource management in the Northern Rockies region and developed solutions intended to minimize negative effects of climate ...