Link between land-ocean warming contrast and surface relative humidities in simulations with coupled climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5223-5227

  Byrne, Michael P ^a   O'Gorman, Paul A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; convective quasi equilibrium; heat stress; land ocean contrasts; warming contrast

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; HEAT STRESS; LAND-OCEAN CONTRASTS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RELATIVE HUMIDITY CHANGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WARMING CONTRAST;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THERMAL STRESS; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLUX; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SIMULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84884882105     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50971     Document Type: Article

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