American Geophysical Union
Rain falls at the Dumont d’Urville Station in the eastern Antarctic coast, New Year’s Day 2014.
Credit: Bruno Jourdain /Nicolas Jourdain / UGA/CNRS/IPEV
Liza Lester, +1 (202) 777-7494, [email protected] (UTC -4 hours)
Étienne Vignon, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, [email protected] (UTC +2 hours)
Alexis Berne, Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, [email protected] (UTC +2 hours)
Rainfall could increase in amount, frequency and intensity over the next 80 years along the coast of Antarctica, a new study predicts.
By 2100, if greenhouse gases continue to be released at a high level, rain might increase by 240% on average across the continent.