{"id":11485,"date":"2017-06-17T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2017-06-17T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T01:58:42","slug":"nasa-data-suggest-future-may-be-rainier-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/nasa-data-suggest-future-may-be-rainier-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;NASA data suggest future may be rainier than expected&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by NASA scientists shows that climatologists may be underestimating the amount of rain that might fall in the future because of underestimates in the loss of high-level clouds in the tropics.\u00a0 You might think that less clouds means less rain, not more, but because these high clouds can change the energy balance in the atmosphere, they can actually lead to more rain.\u00a0 This relationship between clouds, temperature, and humidity is one of the things that makes climate modeling so difficult. You can read more about this counter-intuitive idea at <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2596\/nasa-data-suggest-future-may-be-rainier-than-expected\">https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2596\/nasa-data-suggest-future-may-be-rainier-than-expected<\/a>\/. This study is aimed primarily at tropical rainfall, so the same relationships may not hold true for the mid-latitudes.\u00a0 It could cause more southern parts of the region to see more rain but not necessarily the northernmost areas in the region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11487\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11487\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/modeling_future_rainfall-heavy-rain-284x138.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tropical rainfall may increase more than previously thought as the climate warms. Credit: teresaaaa, CC BY-ND 2.0.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by NASA scientists shows that climatologists may be underestimating the amount of rain that might fall in the future because of underestimates in the loss of high-level clouds in the tropics.\u00a0 You might think that less clouds means less rain, not more, but because these high clouds can change the energy balance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11489,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions\/11489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}