The observed sensitivity of the global hydrological cycle to changes in surface temperature

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Arkin, Phillip A ^a   Smith, Thomas M ^b   Sapiano, Mathew R P ^c   Janowiak, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Global change hydrological cycle

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE PROPERTIES;

20TH CENTURY; GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL DATA SETS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MODEL SIMULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77958538481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/035201     Document Type: Article

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