One reason is that this ecological quality indicator is sensitive to inter-annual variability in weather patterns, particularly summer rainfall and water temperature.
Regional projections, however, show substantial variation in amount and timing of precipitation, increasing in some places and decreasing in others, and they indicate an overall increase in variability of weather patterns (Bernstein et al. 2007).
Innovations in low cost greenhouse design have the potential to contribute to increased food security, particularly in areas where global climate change is creating additional variability in local weather patterns.
That means the natural climate variability that still dominates regional weather patterns will become increasingly unable to compensate for the drying effect of rising temperatures from global warming, according to the study.
This paper has reviewed some of the complex interactions of climate variability marked by ocean changes and weather patterns in different typological zones of Santos.
On longer time-scales, it has become clear that changes in global-scale weather patterns impose a considerable variability in the thermosphere and ionosphere.
Heat is accumulating in the deep ocean and an energized climate superimposed on patterns of natural variability helps explain the new, more volatile weather patterns we are experiencing today.
