Warming in the Arctic increases snowfall (IMAGE)

Hokkaido University

Warming in the Arctic increases snowfall

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An increasingly warm and ice-free Arctic Ocean has, in recent decades, led to more moisture in higher latitudes. This moisture is transported south by cyclonic weather systems where it precipitates as snow, influencing the global hydrological cycle and many terrestrial systems that depend on it (Illustration: Tomonori Sato).

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Tomonori Sato

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