Modeling the Messinian Salinity Crisis:
The LS experiment results in a large increase in
winter convective and large-scale
precipitation over Northern Italy (Fig. 5). The winter precipitation
difference over the Alps reaches a
maximum of 1500 mm yr-1.
Figure 5: The difference in Precipitation
(large scale and convective) between the three cases (LS, LL, and
UL) and the control (US).
The effects that the Messinian
Salinity Crisis had on the Earth's climate are huge. The
experiments showed that there changes in the atmosphere and water
around the Earth.
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