The phrase "a decrease in extreme" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing reductions in extreme conditions or events, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The report indicated a decrease in extreme weather patterns over the last decade."
Alternatives: "a reduction in extremes" or "a decline in extreme events".
In catchments where the flooding is mainly caused by spring/summer snowmelt, the downscaling methods project a decrease in the extreme flows in three of the four catchments considered.
The historic data series shows an increase in the frequency of extraordinarily high waters beginning in the 19th century and a significant decrease in extreme droughts beginning in 1890.
In a study conducted in the two years after Oregon expanded it's own Medicaid system in 2008, the coverage led to an 80percentt decrease in extreme out-of-pockets expenses (costs exceeding 30percentt of income) due to an increase in preventive medicine.
With global-average surface temperatures increasing in response to manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, the world has already been seeing an uptick in the frequency and severity of deadly extreme heat events, and a decrease in cold-weather extremes.
Strikingly, it was found that the increase in extreme precipitation was associated with a decrease in ET, possibly because extreme precipitation could rapidly turn into streamflow, limiting water infiltration into soils and subsequent evaporation.
As our sampling sizes and number of sites were limited at the highest elevations, further investigation into these environments would greatly aid to support the pattern seen between altitude and host species richness in the tropical Andes (Kattan and Franco 2004), namely a decrease in species numbers at extreme altitudes (>3000 m).
Zambia also experienced a decrease in physician density but less extreme than Cameroon.
Secondly, global climate change models predict an increase in the intensity and a decrease in the return interval of extreme weather events [ 12].
The decrease in extreme peak discharges due to the afforestation scenario was of the order of 4 5%.
