However, changes in global precipitation patterns, particularly short droughts during the rainy season, have affected crop production because nodulation is greatly affected by water shortages.
Climate warming and changes in global precipitation patterns, particularly drought, are already affecting crop production [1].
Furthermore, NEE's and FPL's physical plant could be placed at greater risk of damage should changes in the global climate produce unusual variations in temperature and weather patterns, resulting in more intense, frequent and extreme weather events, abnormal levels of precipitation and, particularly relevant to FPL, a change in sea level".
Climate change is associated with changes in the regional precipitation pattern.
The global model satisfactorily depicted the changes in the mean autumn precipitation, as reflected by the 50% percentile curves (Fig. 9).
In conjunction with a recent freshening in high latitude oceans, previous studies have mainly examined changes in the enhanced global hydrological cycle due to changes in net evaporation and precipitation (Durack et al. 2012).
The ice and snow melt from the Himalayas, in combination with changes in the nature of precipitation, would have equally large consequences for millions of people.
Stationary changes of summer, autumn, and winter precipitation were detected by the seasonal model, though the precipitation changes were nonstationary in the global model output.
Since absorption of solar heating by water vapor is the major source for tidal generation, changes in precipitation patterns will change the global distribution of water vapor and hence lead to changes in atmospheric tides.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) series of reports concluded that global mean air temperature showed a significant increase during the past 50 years while only slight change occurred in global mean precipitation (IPCC 2013).
