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A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events

A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association (NOAA), April 3, 2013. According to a newly-published study, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the most extreme precipitation events more intense. Kenneth Kunkel, marine earth and atmospheric sciences, featured.