http://www.tntech.edu/pressreleases/large-dams-can-affect-local-climates-alter-rainfall-says-ttu-led-study/
Two professors teamed up and took data from the years 1979-2009 in order to try and regulate temperature and also be able to build more affective dams. This idea of being able to change and regulate the temperature due to a large dam and the water that it holds is a strange, but very cool, idea to me. The professor put it into a very easy and smart way of thinking about this idea. He put it in terms of a swimming pool in your backyard, if you were to pump all of the water into your front yard, it would not take long to evaporate. By making this large increase of available water for evaporation, the humidity will quickly change.
Not only did they claim that they could regulate the temperature but that they could also estimate what a future dam would do and undergo before it was even built. By having this information and knowledge future dams should, it seems like, be much more affective and responsive to certain weather activities.
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