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Title: Global warming will increase rainfall in Earth's tropical regions: NASA
Source:Business Standard
Date:12 June 2017

The amount of rainfall in the Earth's tropical regions will significantly increase as our planet continues to warm, a new NASA study warns. Most global climate models underestimate decreases in high clouds over the tropics seen in recent NASA observations, according to research led by scientist Hui Su of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the US. Globally, rainfall is not related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth's "energy budget" - incoming energy from the Sun compared to outgoing heat energy.




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