Mongabay: It took over two-and-a-half-years for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics to finally accept a paper outlining a new meteorological hypothesis in which condensation, not temperature, drives winds. If proven correct, the hypothesis could have massive ramifications on global policy-not to mention meteorology-as essentially the hypothesis means that the world's forest play a major role in driving precipitation from the coast into a continent's interior. The theory, known as the biotic pump,......
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Controversial research outlines physics behind how forests may bring rain
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 30th, 2013
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