Interpreting the inter-model spread in regional precipitation projections in the tropics: role of surface evaporation and cloud radiative effects

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 2801-2815

  Oueslati, Boutheina ^a,b   Bony, Sandrine ^a   Risi, Camille ^a   Dufresne, Jean Louis ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud radiative effects; Evaporation; Precipitation projections uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84957597050     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2998-6     Document Type: Article

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