New study from the West Greenland Ice Sheet shows that weather patterns and summer warming combine to drive ice loss that is at the highest levels in at least 450 …read more Source:: Science
Tag: weather patterns
Warmer, wetter climate could mean stronger, more intense storms
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•How would today’s weather patterns look in a warmer, wetter atmosphere — an expected shift portended by climate change? Researchers offer new insight into this question — specifically, how thunderstorms …read more Source:: Science
6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened?
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•As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world’s weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated …read more Source:: Science