Increasing rainfall may affect winds: study
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 06:00
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Falling raindrops produce friction as they drop through the atmosphere to the ground, and this dissipates the kinetic energy, converting it into diffuse heat. Now researchers in the US have used recently-obtained satellite data to calculate the energy dissipation, and they have discovered it is a surprisingly major component of the atmospheres overall energy system.