maicol72 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 It was known that the moon influences the tides had, but never on precipitation. The force of gravity of the moon makes its effects felt causing fluctuations not only for what concerns the rising sea levels, but the amount of rain. To detect for the first time this influence, a barely perceptible reduction of 1%, is the study carried out by Tsubasa Kohyama, University of Washington and will be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The discovery was made by studying data on precipitation in tropical varieregioni collected by satellites over the past 15 years. Just comparing that data the researchers saw that was recorded a slight decrease in rainfall when the moon is high in the sky or when it is exactly the opposite side of the planet. Simply put the moon with her attraction "squeezes" the atmosphere, which causes an increase in pressure, which according to scholars this pressure would make sure that the air molecules can absorb water and thus reduce the% of one rain. link removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 ! Moderator Note Can you post a link to a relevant site in English, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maicol72 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) Unfortunately I wrote in my forum in Italian , taken from a site in Italian there was no need to take off my forum links , to me there 's also a section to advertise the forum , if you 're invited Edited February 4, 2016 by maicol72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 This is the original paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL067342/full Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maicol72 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 I took the news and I made mine, I do not like to copy and paste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robittybob1 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/01/29/phases-of-the-moon-affect-amount-of-rainfall/ is another news site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany Jones Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/01/29/phases-of-the-moon-affect-amount-of-rainfall/ Read the news here, its quite interesting to know this fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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