As rainfall intensifies with climate change the potential devastation from floods leaves residents with two choices, move away from the river or build ever-larger flood defences.
With regard to the northern summer monsoon, some studies suggest that the monsoon circulation and rainfall have intensified in a changing climate2.
During this period, wet-season Sahelian temperatures have not risen, ruling out the possibility that rainfall has intensified in response to locally warmer conditions.
With the advent of climate change, higher temperatures have been associated with changes in rainfall, in particular intensifying rainfall extremes with less uniform temporal patterns.
Then, when it interacts with a cold front over the weekend, rainfall may intensify from Missouri and Illinois into the Ohio Valley.
We conclude that higher rainfall can intensify thaw slump activity and rapidly alter the slope-sediment cascade in regions of ice-cored glaciogenic deposits.
The key manifestations for these situations include increased rainfall uncertainties, intensifying droughts, and rising temperatures.
These were manifested through increased rainfall uncertainties, intensifying droughts, and rising temperatures, with effects on crop and livestock performances in the area, accompanied by plummeting household food security and income positions.
There have, of course, been many notable flooding occasions in the UK but during the last 15 to 30 years slow moving/stagnant upper troughs (UK/NA) have intensified the rainfall effect particularly if uk is on forward side of diff.
Fiji – crop damage from recent cyclones is combining with unusual rainfall patterns to intensify food security risks.
In the context of warmer seas, mounting urbanization and intensifying rainfall, solely relying on the past becomes questionable at best.
