Apr 4, 2013
CICS-NC researchers: A warming world will intensify extreme precipitation events
This story originally ran April 3, 2013, as a media release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the most extreme precipitation events more intense. The…