Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5212-5217

  Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a   Wilhelm, Micah ^a   Stanelle, Tanja ^a   Van Den Hurk, Bart ^b   Hagemann, Stefan ^c   Berg, Alexis ^d,e   Cheruy, Frederique ^f   Higgins, Matthew E ^g   Meier, Arndt ^h   Brovkin, Victor ^c   Claussen, Martin ^c   Ducharne, Agnès ⁱ   Dufresne, Jean Louis ^f   Findell, Kirsten L ^d   Ghattas, Joséfine ⁱ   Lawrence, David M ^g   Malyshev, Sergey ^j   Rummukainen, Markku ^h   Smith, Benjamin ^k  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^j PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

climate extremes; CMIP5; feedbacks; land atmosphere interactions; projections; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EXTREMES; CMIP5; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODEL INTER COMPARISONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PROJECTIONS;

EARTH (PLANET); EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVAPORATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84884788919     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50956     Document Type: Article

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