Thursday, October 11, 2012

Global warming may shift summer weather patterns

Climate Central: By altering the heat balance between land and sea, manmade global warming may be altering summer weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere, a new study found. The study, published on Sept. 30 in Nature Geoscience, shows that the sprawling high pressure areas that set up shop over the Western North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans during the summer months have become larger and stronger during the past 40 years, and these trends are likely to continue during the next several decades as temperatures...

URL: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-warming-may-shift-summer-weather-patterns-study-finds-15100
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