Published in ERW, 26 Jan 2016
Meteorologists in the UK have found that winter rainfall in the Mediterranean is strongly linked to high-altitude winds in North Africa.
The link suggests that improving the accuracy of rainfall predictions for the Mediterranean, which is currently expected to get drier in winter with ongoing climate change, will require narrowed uncertainty about the state of the atmospheric circulation.
The study, by Giuseppe Zappa and others at the University of Reading, implies that 85% of changes in winter Mediterranean rainfall can be put down to changes in atmospheric circulation, both above Africa and over the Mediterranean itself. […]
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