Cold war nuclear bomb tests impacted rainfall patterns across the world

Cold war nuclear bomb tests impacted rainfall patterns across the world

Nuclear bomb tests conducted during the Cold War caused patterns of electrical disturbance that were evident thousands of kilometers away– from Japan to the UK. Researchers at the universities of Reading, Bath, and Bristol, have studied how the electric charge…

Impact of polar ozone depletion on subtropical precipitation

Impact of polar ozone depletion on subtropical precipitation

The ozone hole over Antarctica has been rearranging rainfall patterns throughout the Southern Hemisphere for decades, a new modeling analysis shows. The idea that losing ozone in the cold stratosphere over the South Pole could affect weather in the lower atmosphere…