其连锁效应可能包括气温升高、云层增厚、降水量增加和海平面升高。
The knock-on effects are likely to include more warming, cloudier skies, increased precipitation and higher sea levels.
由于湖泊水位是由蒸发率和降水量控制的，对这种水位的解释是模糊不清的。
Since lake levels are controlled by rates of evaporation as well as by precipitation, the interpretation of such levels is ambiguous.
对于超高温火灾增多的一种解释是，该地区夏季通常很干燥，近年来降水量明显低于正常水平。
One explanation for the trend to more superhot fires is that the region, which usually has dry summers, has had significantly below normal precipitation in many recent years.
“这引起了澳大利亚科学界的争论，因为并没有明显的降水量净减的证据，”他说。
"This was followed by considerable scientific debate in Australia, because no net decrease of precipitation was clearly evident," he says.
美国其他公共花园也观察到开花时间的提前，以及温度、降水量模式和物种分布情况的改变。
Other public gardens across America are also observing earlier bloom times, in addition to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns and distribution of species.
泥沙控制力度的加大降低了洪水风险，而新建的小型大坝网络可以在降水量较低的情况下帮助集镇和农业储存用水。
Better sediment control has reduced the risks of flooding with a network of small DAMS helping store water for towns and for agriculture when rainfall is low.
但随着南极洲持续变暖，科里和刘继平的模型显示，雪变成了雨（见下图），总降水量上升了（见上图）。
But as the Antarctic continues to warm, Curry and Liu's models show snow becoming rain (see image below), even as total precipitation rises (see image above).
就位于这些纬度的这一地区来说，年总降水量300毫米似乎少了一些。
The annual total rainfall of 300 mm seems somewhat low for the region at these latitude.
从这座山上流下来的河流为这降水量极少的地区提供了农业用的水源。
Rivers coursing down from the mountains provide water for agriculture in a region of scanty rainfall.
总之，下面一张图片的风景显得更绿了，这表明2010年在平常干旱的地区会有更大的降水量刺激植物生长。
Overall, the landscape appears greener in the later image, indicating that greater precipitation in 2010 spurred plant growth in the normally arid region.
在年平均降水量仅有40毫米的纳米比亚西海岸的干燥沙漠里，纳米布甲虫已进化出独特的集水机能。
IN THE dry desert on the west coast of Namibia, where the annual average rainfall is a meagre 40mm, the Namib beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) has evolved a unique mechanism to drink.
大坝后面水库中的储水，加上用来灌溉土地的水，会增加附近地区的潮湿度，使降水量提高。
Water in reservoirs behind dams, plus the water used to irrigate nearby land puts more moisture in the air, which falls as precipitation.
2010年，降雨殊为异常，长江流域的降水量要比平常年份多出15%。
The rains were abnormally heavy -- the Yangtze basin had 15 percent more rainfall in 2010 than in an average year.
处于高海拔地带，山西的气候寒冷干燥，年均降水量在400- 600毫米之间。
Being at a high altitude, Shanxi Province has a cold and dry climate and has an annual rainfall of between 400-600 millimeters.
而从2002年到2008年，这一干旱地区的平均降水量只有50厘米每年。
And the arid region's rainfall levels were above the average of 50 centimeters per year from 2002 to 2008.
在干旱现象已经很常见的埃塞俄比亚，降水量又将在接下来的50年里下降10个百分点。
Rainfall in Ethiopia, where droughts are already common, could decline by 10 percent over the next 50 years.
山地的降水量要比平原高。
Precipitation in the mountain area is higher than in the plains.
他们发现，某些年份的海水比其它年份更加温暖或盐度更高，其原因是蒸发量的增加或者降水量的减少。
They found signs that in some years the waters were warmer or saltier than others, due to increased evaporation or reduced precipitation.
由于今年降水量均值高于去年，因此洪灾有进一步恶化的可能。
Average rainfall has far exceeded that of last year, leading to extreme flooding conditions and is expected to get worse.
但每年98%的降水量集中在三月到十月期间，剩下的四个月气候非常干燥。
But 98 percent of the local rainfall comes from March to October every year, and the climate will become rather dry during the other four months.
我们还看到发生之类事件之后，全球的降水量减少了百分之十。
We also saw that two to four years after the event, rainfall would decrease globally by an average of about 10 percent.
我们还看到发生之类事件之后，全球的降水量减少了百分之十。
We also saw that two to four years after the event, rainfall would decrease globally by an average of about 10 percent.
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