Comments on: The Year of Drought and Flood http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/20/the-year-of-drought-and-flood/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Warming and the Water Cycle: More than Just a Faster Wetter Wet and Drier Dry – Climate Matters - State of the Planet http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/20/the-year-of-drought-and-flood/comment-page-1/#comment-54791 Warming and the Water Cycle: More than Just a Faster Wetter Wet and Drier Dry – Climate Matters - State of the Planet Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:51:00 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16361#comment-54791 [...] As the atmosphere warms, its capacity to hold water vapor increases. This is quantified by the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, which explains that the atmosphere will hold about about 7% more moisture for every degree Celsius of warming. That means more evaporation in areas that are already dry and increased precipitation in regions that already receive high rainfall.  Thus we can expect increasing droughts in dry areas and more floods in regions now prone to flooding. [...]

]]> By: Mel. White http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/20/the-year-of-drought-and-flood/comment-page-1/#comment-18198 Mel. White Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:25:05 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16361#comment-18198 I’m documenting what’s going on at Trinity River Audubon Center here in Dallas, Texas, and it’s shocking to see the impact as the edges of the ponds shrink. We’ve seen snakes fishing in drying puddles of water and I’ve noticed that the number of butterflies is down — by quite a bit.

I’m concerned about what will happen when the drought ends, though. Will we see an increase of invasives… and if so, what kinds?

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