Over the past 20 years, extreme droughts and precipitation have become much more intense against the backdrop of climate change. According to Gismeteo, NASA researchers identified the corresponding connection in a scientific paper that was published in Nature Water.
So, scientists have analyzed more than a thousand of this kind of phenomena that occurred in the period from 2002 to 2021. It is noted that in their work, experts used a new algorithm that determines too wet or too dry land. According to the researchers, due to the too warm atmosphere during droughts, water evaporates faster, and it also contains more water vapor, which in turn provokes heavy rains.
Scientists observed the heaviest showers in African countries south of the Sahara Desert until December 2021, and the most powerful droughts, in turn, the researchers noted in the northeast of South America from 2015 to 2016 and the Brazilian Cerrado region from 2019 to the present day .
Experts say that the relationship of extreme weather events with rising average temperatures around the world indicates the coming increase in droughts and rainstorms, which will also negatively affect infrastructure designed to withstand natural disasters once in a century, and not on an ongoing basis. .
Source: Rosbalt
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