London, Dec 13:  Climate change is aggressively impacting the climates of the world especially with wet areas getting wetter and ry areas becoming more dry, thereby making life more challenging for the inhabitants.The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, analysed the saltiness of the world's oceans.  
 
The regions which are relatively wet, like Northern Europe,  are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier — both by about two per cent over the last 60 years, the study said.
 
 "Our findings match what has been predicted by models of a warming climate; as the world gets warmer wet regions will continue to get wetter and dry regions will continue to get drier," said lead researcher Nikolaos Skliris, Research Fellow at University of Southampton in Britain.
  
 "Although we have found that this process is happening slower than first thought, if global warming exceeds 3 degrees Celsius, wet regions will likely get more than 10 per cent wetter and dry regions more than 10 per cent drier, which could have disastrous implications for river flows and agriculture," Skliris noted.
 
More rain and outflow from rivers in a region of an ocean means sea water gets diluted and therefore becomes less salty and evaporation in another region takes away fresh water and leaves salt behind making that region more saline.  
  
The researchers used measurements of salinity throughout the global and deep oceans over the last 60 years to estimate how much global rainfall is changing.