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Category Archives: Rainfall
Projected longer dry spells under climate change occur during dry seasons not wet seasons
By Caroline Wainwright The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that the global water cycle will intensify with continued global warming. This means fewer rainy days, but with more intense rain over many land regions, and more … Continue reading
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TerraMaris: Plans, Progress And Setbacks Of Atmospheric Research In Indonesia
By: Emma Howard To some of us weather enthusiasts, there’s nothing more exciting than a good tropical thunderstorm. For the best storms, you need a good source of humid air from a warm ocean and a hot land surface. If … Continue reading
Satellite data used to provide life-saving weather forecasts in tropical Africa
By: Peter Hill Much of the population of tropical Africa are vulnerable to severe weather, often caused by intense storms that can generate heavy rainfall, strong winds and flooding. For instance, thousands of fishermen drown each year in Lake Victoria … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Climate, Rainfall, Remote sensing
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Here comes the rain again…
By: Natalie Harvey British people are well renowned for their obsession for talking about the weather. This is partly because it is a “safe” topic for conversation and partly because it is really fascinating! This is especially true in the … Continue reading
Sources of rainfall over East Asia
By: Liang Guo The East Asian monsoon causes intense rainfall over China, Japan and the Koreas every summer, and a cold, dry season every winter. This is driven by thermal and dynamical contrasts between the vast Pacific Ocean and the … Continue reading
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Tropical rainfall and sea surface temperature link could improve forecasts
By: Chris Holloway and the University of Reading Press Office. Tropical rainfall, averaged on seasonal time scales, is influenced far more strongly by nearby sea temperatures in the real world than in almost all climate simulations, scientists have found, paving … Continue reading
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What Does A Probability Of Rainfall Mean?
By: Tom Frame Here is a question that you may think has a simple answer – but surveys have often indicated people misinterpret it. So why is this question difficult to answer? This blog entry is about why the probability … Continue reading
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Finding the skill of forecasts of extreme precipitation in Southeast Asia
By: Samantha Ferrett Forecasting weather in Southeast Asia Southeast (SE) Asia is prone to high‐impact weather and is often subject to flooding and landslides as a result of heavy rainfall. Just last month Indonesia was hit by heavy rainfall that … Continue reading
Sunshine, cracks, fly-tipping, aphids: Phew, what a May!
By: Roger Brugge Those spending more time in their gardens and in local parks and woods in and around Reading due to the current lockdown situation will have noticed how the ground surface had been resembling the look and feel … Continue reading
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Understanding the role of climate change in the 2018 Kerala floods.
By: Kieran Hunt & Arathy Menon These days, when a weather-related catastrophe occurs, one of the first questions raised in the aftermath is “did this happen because of climate change?”. Because of the stochastic and chaotic nature of weather, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Flooding, Monsoons, Rainfall
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