Time when Southwest was wet and Northwest was dry aids efforts to predict future rainfall patterns

Monday, February 23, 2015 - 15:31 in Earth & Climate

The first comprehensive map of the topsy-turvy climate in the western U.S, 21,000 years ago has been developed by researchers. They focus on when the Southwest was wet and the Northwest was dry, testing it to improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.

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