Understanding the intermodel spread in global-mean hydrological sensitivity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 801-817

  Fläschner, Dagmar ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Climate change; General circulation models; Heat budgets fluxes; Hydrologic cycle; Model comparison; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; MODEL COMPARISON; SENSITIVITY PARAMETERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENTS; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84957795000     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0351.1     Document Type: Article

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