Amount of Rain Has Risen 2% Since Turn of the Century, Scientists Report
From Times staff and wire reports
World land masses receive about a tenth of an inch more rainfall now than they did at the turn of the century, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists, with the greatest increases occurring in the high and middle latitudes. Over the entire world, a team from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City reported in the November Journal of Climate, rainfall increased by about 2%.
Researchers do not know why rainfall has increased, but the changes are consistent with predictions based on the atmosphere’s response to an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases.
