2100年的降雨将落在哪里?[幻灯片]

偏远太平洋岛屿的实地考察揭示答案

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环绕地球赤道以北的热带雨带影响着全球的降雨模式。通过从热带岛屿的池塘和湖床中提取沉积物岩芯,科学家可以确定自公元 800 年以来雨带的位置以及未来可能移动的位置。按照目前的全球变暖速度,到 2100 年,雨带可能会向北移动 5 度,使厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚和美国西南部干旱。

从如此偏远的地区获取数据通常需要现场的独创性。华盛顿大学西雅图海洋学院的海洋学副教授朱利安·P·萨克斯和普林斯顿大学地球科学专业的康纳·L·米尔沃尔德分享了近期考察的照片。

观看数据收集照片的幻灯片。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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