Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming
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Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming
Using the climate change experiments generated for the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this study examines some aspects of the changes in the hydrological cycle that are robust across the models. These responses include the decrease in convective mass fluxes, the increase in horizontal moisture transport, the associated enhancement of the pattern of evaporati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Climate
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1520-0442,0894-8755
DOI: 10.1175/jcli3990.1