Weather-making high-pressure systems predicted to intensify as a result of increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org)—High-pressure systems over oceans, which largely determine the tracks of tropical cyclones and hydrological extremes in much of the northern hemisphere, are likely to intensify this century, according to a Duke University-led study published online this week in Nature Geoscience.