Research suggests that releasing aerosols could also help to bring
back global rainfall patterns to their pre-industrial averages.
Not exact matches
The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting
global temperature and
rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh
back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.
So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going
back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a
global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where
rainfall happens is going to shift.
«Climate records
back to Viking times show the 20th century was unexceptional for
rainfall and droughts despite assumptions that
global warming would trigger more wet and dry extremes, a study showed on Wednesday.