Tag Archives: Precipitation

MIT Study Predicts Every 1-Degree Increase in Temperature Will Cause 10 Percent Increase in Rainfall Extremes

Climate scientists have long projected that increases in global temperatures will result in higher rainfall and flooding in tropical regions. But now a MIT study has put some numbers to the prediction. Writing in Nature Geoscience in a September 16th … Continue reading

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The Good, the bad and the ugly – Cloud Seeding

Dattatreya: Cloud seeding can be considered as a part of weather modification (or engineering), which relates to regulation of precipitation (both quantitatively and alteration of type) in a certain area. The process can be achieved by distributing artificial substances like … Continue reading

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