How much more rain will global warming bring?

被引：762

作者：

Wentz, Frank J. ^{[1
]}

Ricciardulli, Lucrezia ^{[1
]}

Hilburn, Kyle ^{[1
]}

Mears, Carl ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Remote Sensing Syst, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2007年 / 317卷 / 5835期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1140746

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：233 / 235

页数：3

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