A new study to be published in the International Journal of Climatology concludes that predicting the effects of global warming in the future could be significantly affected by mountains.
The study, written by researchers from Oregon State University using the unique historical data provided by Oregon’s H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, believes that the effects of global warming could be dramatically changed over very small distances thanks to the air movements in complex or mountainous terrain.
The authors believe that such a change could see doubling or even tripling to the temperature increases in some situations. (more…)