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Future rise in rain inequality

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Rainfall disparities are expected to intensify in response to anthropogenic climate change. Model simulations suggest that wet regions and seasons will get wetter, and that a warmer equator will get wetter too.

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Figure 1: Trends in tropical rainfall.

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  1. Michela Biasutti is at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, PO Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964, USA,

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Biasutti, M. Future rise in rain inequality. Nature Geosci 6, 337–338 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1814

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