New study shows that warming global extremes may be already occurring

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New study shows that warming global extremes may be already occurring

Scientists have warned that warming temperatures would lead to wetter and drier global extremes — increasingly severe rainfall, more intense droughts. There is a new study showing where that may already be happening.

The study provides an emerging picture of the distortions in the total amount of water both above ground and in aquifers deep beneath Earth s surface, where most of the freshwater that humans depend on comes from.

It relies on data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Mission, or GRACE, which uses satellites that can detect changes in gravity to measure fluctuations in water that other satellites can't see. It can provide information about locations where there are no gauges or wells.

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