Warming of planet will affect storms differently in Northern and Southern hemispheres

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 08:40 in Earth & Climate

Weather systems in the Southern and Northern hemispheres will respond differently to global warming, according to an MIT atmospheric scientist's analysis that suggests the warming of the planet will affect the availability of energy to fuel extratropical storms, or large-scale weather systems that occur at Earth's middle latitudes. The resulting changes will depend on the hemisphere and season, the study found...

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