How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring?
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- 13 July 2007
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 317 (5835), 233-235
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1140746
Abstract
Climate models and satellite observations both indicate that the total amount of water in the atmosphere will increase at a rate of 7% per kelvin of surface warming. However, the climate models predict that global precipitation will increase at a much slower rate of 1 to 3% per kelvin. A recent analysis of satellite observations does not support this prediction of a muted response of precipitation to global warming. Rather, the observations suggest that precipitation and total atmospheric water have increased at about the same rate over the past two decades.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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