Terrestrial aridity and its response to greenhouse warming across CMIP5 climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5583-5600

  Scheff, Jacob ^a   Frierson, Dargan M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Climate change; Evapotranspiration; General circulation models; Hydrology; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GREENHOUSES; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TROPICS;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; DIMENSIONLESS RATIOS; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENHOUSE WARMING; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARIDITY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84942872910     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00480.1     Document Type: Article

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