World’s Largest Dam Already Changing the Weather

By Alex in Architecture, Science & Tech, Travel on Jul 19, 2007 at 1:50 am


Image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The world’s largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River, is two years from being completed but it’s already changing the weather:

Both modeling and actual meteorological data suggest that the reservoir is cooling its valley, which is causing changes in rainfall.

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