How does GLOBAL

WARMING change RAINFALL

PATTERNS???

WHAT DOES RAINFALL PATTERN

MEAN?
Rainfall pattern means the distribution of rain
geographically, temporally, and seasonally. The tropics
receive more rainfall than deserts. Cooler places like the
poles receive no rainfall, as it is converted to snow before it
falls to the ground. Rainfall happens more in a particular time
of a year, during a rainy season. In other seasons, rainfall is
scant. Therefore, agriculture (rain-fed), worldwide, is planned
based on rainfalls natural pattern. Water storages, irrigation
networks, and urban water supply systems are designed
according to the average annual rainfall. If it rains a lot on a
continuous basis for a longer time, there is possibility of flood
and subsequent disaster to the infrastructure. No rainfall or
little rainfall for a longer period (years) in an inhabited area
could lead to drought and famine.

CHANGE IN RAINFALLpattern is a
consequence of global warming. The
worlds agriculture, especially third
world agriculture, depends upon the
seasonal rainfall pattern. Recent erratic
changes in rainfall pattern lead toward
low agriculture production, thus creating
food insecurity for an ever-increasing
world population. Flood, drought, and
famine are the consequences of these
changing patterns.

WHAT REALLY
HAPPENS IN
THE PROCESS?

Global warming leads to a near-term collapse of the

oceans thermohaline circulation.
Thermohalinecirculation is a global ocean circulation
pattern that distributes water and heat both vertically,
through the water column, and horizontally across the
globe. Due to this collapse of thermohaline circulation,
warm surface waters move from the tropics to the
North Atlantic and extra-warm water surfaces in the
Pacific Ocean surrounding the equator. Thus, Western
Europe, some parts of Asia, and many parts of the
Americas get warmer than normal, and some parts of
Europe get cooler rapidly. El Nino and La Nina are
examples of this. This latest deviant trend generates
dramatic weather impacts, such as rapid cooling in
some parts of the world, and greatly diminished
rainfall in agricultural and urban areas. UNESCO and
other studies found that changes in rainfall pattern
could be attributed to the shifts in global wind pattern.
These shifts are due to the changes in the ocean

FURTHER
MORE;

Washington, May 4 (ANI):

A NASA-led modeling
study has provided new
evidence that global
warming could change
future global rainfall
patterns and increase
the risk of both flooding

And what did William Lau of

NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., and lead author of the
study say?

"In response to carbon

dioxide-induced warming, the
global water cycle undergoes
a gigantic competition for
moisture resulting in a global
pattern of increased heavy
rain, decreased moderate
rain, and prolonged droughts
in certain regions,"

Now
that is
scary!!!

On
reliability
problems

changes in rainfall patternsare

unfounded due to lack of
instrumental records for a large
time period. However, studies
using indirect methods have
proved that global warming, in
fact, is causing serious rainfall
pattern variability. Tree-ring
analysis for predicting rainfall
amounts in previous years
(hundreds of years back) is one
study, which proved that rainfall
pattern variability is extensive in

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