Rain In Hawaii On The Decline

April 24, 2013

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112829666/global-warming-could-lessen-rain-for-hawaii-042413/

It has happened almost imperceptibly, but rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been in decline since 1978. According to a team of scientists at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (UHM) and the University of Colorado, Boulder, this trend is likely to continue with global warming through the end of this century. Though the findings of this study, published in the early online issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, supports prior UHM work, it is still unclear if this drying trend will continue.

“For water resource and ecosystem management, and for other societal needs, we need to know whether this drying trend will continue this century,” says Oliver Elison Timm at the International Pacific Research Center, UHM….read more