Dry lands getting drier, wet getting wetter: Earth’s water cycle intensifying with atmospheric warming
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 21 May, 2012
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A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world's oceans, signaling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle. The patterns are not uniform, with regional variations agreeing with the 'rich get richer' mechanism, where wet regions get wetter and dry regions drier....