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March 18, 2013

Remote clouds responsible for climate models' glitch in tropical rainfall
Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 14, 2013
It seems counterintuitive that clouds over the Southern Ocean, which circles Antarctica, would cause rain in Zambia or the tropical island of Java. But new research finds that one of the most persistent biases in global climate models - a phantom band of rainfall just south of the equator that does not occur in reality - is caused by poor simulation of the cloud cover thousands of miles farther to the south. University of Washington atmospheric scientists hope their results help explain why global clima ... read more

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