Weather 'whiplash' in Antarctica may help predict effects of future climate change
August 07, 2024
August 07, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 7 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica live up to their name. The region is one of the driest places on Earth mountains form a wall around the valleys and prevent melting glacier water from intruding, humidity is extremely low, and no rain was documented in the valleys between the 1960s and the early 2020s.
So when Virginia Tech biological sciences Professor J.E. "Jeb" Barrett learned of a . . .
The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica live up to their name. The region is one of the driest places on Earth mountains form a wall around the valleys and prevent melting glacier water from intruding, humidity is extremely low, and no rain was documented in the valleys between the 1960s and the early 2020s.
So when Virginia Tech biological sciences Professor J.E. "Jeb" Barrett learned of a . . .