Earth warming unevenly: Tropical Atlantic sees weaker trade winds and more rainfall
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 6 February, 2011
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Earth is gradually warming, but not evenly. Efforts to pin down regional climate impacts of this warming have been hampered by biased wind observations over the oceans. Developing a new technique to remove the bias, scientists found that during the last 60 years the tropical Atlantic trade winds weakened, ocean temperature patterns shifted, and Amazon and Guinea Coast rainfall increased....