A new high-resolution climate study by University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientists — the first to apply regional climate models to examine likely near-term changes in temperature and precipitation across the U.S. Northeast — suggests temperatures are going to be significantly warmer in all seasons in the next 30 years, especially in winter.
Also, they project that winters will be wetter, with more rain likely than snow.
Writing in the current issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Michael Rawlins and Raymond Bradley of the Climate System Research Center at UMass Amherst, with Henry Diaz of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA), provide the highest resolution climate projections to date for the Northeast from Pennsylvania to Maine.
Winter Contracting, Snow Season Expected to Be Shorter
The study used data from multiple climate model simulations run at greatly improved resolution.
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