Extreme rainfall events will also become more frequent and intense in a warmer climate, owing to another simple fact of physics: warm air can hold more moisture.

极端降雨事件在变暖的气候中越来越频繁，越来越强烈，其原因是另一个简单的物理事实：暖空气可以容纳更多的水分。

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The climate models appear to have underestimated the contribution of global warming on extreme rainfall: it's worse than we thought it would be.

气候模型似乎低估了全球变暖对极端降雨的影响：它比我们所想象的更为糟糕。

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Reflecting this trend, the Indian monsoon - which in terms of absolute levels of rainfall changed little over the 20th century-has been seeing more of its rainfall in extreme events than it used to.

反应这股趋势的是，印度季风- - - 20世纪以来，在绝对降雨量方面变化很小- - -出现更多降雨的比率比过去增加了。

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High rates of tectonic uplift, weak rocks, steep slopes, frequent earthquakes and extreme rainfall, all translate into a place Petley calls the "landslide capital of the world".

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"We have always seen a great deal of variability in UK extreme rainfall because our weather patterns are constantly changing, but this analysis suggests we are seeing a shift in our rainfall behaviour, " she said.

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But there is - the way to interpret this I think is that there is a discernible influence on all of these events, of global warming nowadays, and it's effecting drought, it's effecting extreme rainfall events in particular around the world.

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