New study: A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events

New study: A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, WDAM-TV, April 14, 2013. According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, 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. The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the North Carolina State University’s Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites and other agencies.