期刊
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 28, 期 20, 页码 8078-8092出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0369.1
关键词
Circulation; Dynamics; Atmospheric circulation; Hydrologic cycle; Atm; Ocean Structure; Phenomena; Precipitation; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Climate change; Moisture; moisture budget; Models and modeling; General circulation models
资金
- MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
- NSF [AGS-1148594]
- NASAROSES [09-IDS09-0049]
Simulations with climate models show a land-ocean contrast in the response of P - E (precipitation minus evaporation or evapotranspiration) to global warming, with larger changes over ocean than over land. The changes over ocean broadly follow a simple thermodynamic scaling of the atmospheric moisture convergence: the so-called wet-get-wetter, dry-get-drier mechanism. Over land, however, the simple scaling fails to give any regions with decreases in P - E, and it overestimates increases in P - E compared to the simulations. Changes in circulation cause deviations from the simple scaling, but they are not sufficient to explain this systematic moist bias. It is shown here that horizontal gradients of changes in temperature and fractional changes in relative humidity, not accounted for in the simple scaling, are important over land and high-latitude oceans. An extended scaling that incorporates these gradients is shown to better capture the response of P - E over land, including a smaller increase in global-mean runoff and several regions with decreases in P - E. In the zonal mean over land, the gradient terms lead to a robust drying tendency at almost all latitudes. This drying tendency is shown to relate, in part, to the polar amplification of warming in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the amplified warming over continental interiors and on the eastern side of midlatitude continents.
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