Later more rain than snow on Arctic

groningen - The global warming exists rainfall in the area around the North Pole at the end of the century, especially from a lot of rain. Now that's still mostly snow. Conclude that the climate researchers Richard Bintanja and Olivier Andry in the latest edition of the science journal Nature Climate Change.

According Bintanja, who works at the KNMI and professor at the University of Groningen, get this ' huge '' impact. For example, the melting of snow, glaciers, sea ice and permafrost, releasing potentially more greenhouse gas methane. As a result, also come under more kinds of fresh water ecosystems which are dependent at risk.

Three years ago suggested KNMI researchers have found that the warming in the Arctic leads to more precipitation. But when they assumed that the low temperatures this additional precipitation would fall mainly in the form of snow.