legraLeGraDec 5, 2022

Really nice coverage in @Wired of my friends (Tripti Bhattacharya and Jess Tierney and Ran Feng and others) work :

Prehistoric Rains were of Epic Proportion:
https://www.wired.com/story/pliocene-like-monsoons-are-returning-to-the-american-southwest/
#paleoclimate #climate #monsoon #geochemistry #modeling #WhatIsPastIsPrologue #hydroclimate
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022AV000757

Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest

As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier.

WIRED