How will global warming affect rainfall patterns over north-western regions of Europe?
(thanks to Keith Dancey for this answer….which is his reply to a question in the newsgroup…..) A. If more heat is pumped into the system (system=earth) then more water vapour will be put into the atmosphere. How that would effect our (local) weather depends upon how it would effect the world’s climate, and how the world’s climate effects our (local) weather. Precise answers to these questions are not known. There are climate models which can be run, and they are improving, but they are not 100% accurate, and they may never be! Such models require knowledge of the atmosphere and oceans that are beyond us at the moment, and computing power that can represent all the processes that are going on all the time. A rather tall order. You might be interested to learn that the Gulf Stream (a natural phenomenon that defines, to a large extent, the UK’s mild climate for it’s latitude) might even become disrupted under certain conditions in some ocean models. So whether global warming is happen
(thanks to Keith Dancey for this answer….which is his reply to a question in the newsgroup…..) A. If more heat is pumped into the system (system=earth) then more water vapour will be put into the atmosphere. How that would effect our (local) weather depends upon how it would effect the world’s climate, and how the world’s climate effects our (local) weather. Precise answers to these questions are not known. There are climate models which can be run, and they are improving, but they are not 100% accurate, and they may never be! Such models require knowledge of the atmosphere and oceans that are beyond us at the moment, and computing power that can represent all the processes that are going on all the time. A rather tall order. You might be interested to learn that the Gulf Stream (a natural phenomenon that defines, to a large extent, the UK’s mild climate for it’s latitude) might even become disrupted under certain conditions in some ocean models. So whether global warming is happen
Related Questions
- How do geological substrate and local climate affect biodiversity partitions and patterns of microendemism?; and finally, How can the knowledge gained from addressing questions one and two be applied towards establishing sound conservation priorities?.
- How will global warming affect rainfall patterns over north-western regions of Europe?
- Who does Global Warming Affect?
