Nature World: The Northern Hemisphere receives more rain than the southern hemisphere, but nobody knows why. Now, a new study has found that oceanic currents from the poles are responsible for tropical rains in the North.
The study was conducted by researchers at University of Washington and colleagues.
"It rains more in the Northern Hemisphere because it's warmer," said Dargan Frierson, a UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences and one of the study authors. "The question is: What makes the Northern...