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Earth could soon be much rainier than previously expected - C C - Jun 10, 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4589792/Earth-soon-rainier-previously-expected.html
EXCERPT: As our planet continues to warm, rainfall in tropical regions will increase. Global climate models may underestimate the amount of rainfall in these regions. They underestimate observations of decreases in high clouds over the tropics. These tropical clouds trap heat in the atmosphere, but fewer of these clouds would lead to the atmosphere cooling - condensing the water vapor into rain...
RE: Earth could soon be much rainier than previously expected - RainbowUnicorn - Jun 12, 2017
(Jun 10, 2017 03:57 AM)C C Wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4589792/Earth-soon-rainier-previously-expected.html
EXCERPT: As our planet continues to warm, rainfall in tropical regions will increase. Global climate models may underestimate the amount of rainfall in these regions. They underestimate observations of decreases in high clouds over the tropics. These tropical clouds trap heat in the atmosphere, but fewer of these clouds would lead to the atmosphere cooling - condensing the water vapor into rain...
indeed & provisions should be put in place to manage flood zones, specifically where residential housing is.
not to mention infastructure that is in places like fords & crossings that could be washed away.
water
sewage
power
telephones
internet
how many housing developments have been built in flood zones ?
RE: Earth could soon be much rainier than previously expected - Yazata - Jun 13, 2017
(Jun 10, 2017 03:57 AM)C C Wrote: Earth could soon be much rainier than previously expected
Sure, there's some small probability of that. It's most likely that rainfall will remain within the expected normal range. And there's some small probability that the future might be much drier. Of course a great deal depends on what location we are talking about. These different results might all be observed somewhere. That's how these things work.
Nobody really knows, it's all projections dependent on various models. Models that have never been tested.
They can't even predict the weather accurately more than 10 days out.
I remain skeptical.
RE: Earth could soon be much rainier than previously expected - RainbowUnicorn - Jun 13, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryosphere
as more of the earths surface is covered with water at a higher temperature i would expect the process of heat exchange to include a larger quantity of water.
as the earth warms up and the altitude of the thermal heat exchange layer where heat leaves the earth gets higher (i am speculating) that it makes the level of evapouration higher also.
thus simplistically as earth warms up the layer we live on becomes more saturated.