Global hydrological cycle response to rapid and slow global warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8781-8786

  Back, Larissa ^a   Russ, Karen ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Inoue, Kuniaki ^a   Zhang, Jiaxu ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Humidity; Paleoclimate; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON RELATIONSHIP; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; PALEOCLIMATES; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

WATER VAPOR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84888023157     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00118.1     Document Type: Article

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