Water is an important resource for plant life. Since climate scenarios for Switzerland predict an average reduction of 20% in summer precipitation until 2070, understanding ecosystem responses to water shortage, e.g. in terms of plant productivity, is of major concern. Thus, we tested the effects of simulated summer drought on three managed grasslands along an altitudinal gradient in Switzerlan...

Climate models predict that shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns are likely to occur across the globe. Changing climate will likely have strong effects on arid environments as a result of increased temperatures, increasing frequency and intensity of droughts, and less consistent pulses of rainfall. Therefore, understanding the link between patterns of precipitation, temperature, and...

The 4th IPCC report summarises the effects on precipitation for Europe based on global climate models (GCM) simulations as follows: In northern Europe the climate will become moister – especially during winter – and the Mediterranean region will be much drier in the future – especially for the summer months than it is today. Central Europe lies in the transition region between these two regimes...

Monthly and 3-hourly precipitation data from twentieth-century climate simulations by the newest generation of 18 coupled climate system models are analyzed and compared with available observations. The characteristics examined include the mean spatial patterns, intraseasonal-to-interannual and ENSO-related variability, convective versus stratiform precipitation ratio, precipitation frequency a...

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reduced rainfall in many parts of the world have prompted scientists to try to manipulate, in different ways, to the nature, causing precipitation from accumulated water in the atmosphere. atmospheric ionization is a new method for producing precipitation and has attracted much attention. in this regard, in recent years, in some regions of the world, in different ways, the relation between mete...

prediction of precipitation is very important. regarding to the non- linear relationships and uncertainty of models, there is no superior and persuasive model among various proposed models to simulate precise precipitation and its amount. wavelet is one of the novel and very effective methods in time series and signals analyzing, that has been considered in the field of hydrology in recent year...

nowadays, undoubted access to up to date with high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution of meteorological parameters is a one of the necessary needs for meteorological science researches. in order to doing this research have been used the different daily, monthly and yearly iran precipitation from global and regional data base of gpcpøŒ gpccøŒ aphrodit v101 0.25øŒ aphrodit v101 0.5 ùˆ...