Link between land-ocean warming contrast and surface relative humidities in simulations with coupled climate models

Simulations of warming climates with coupled climate models exhibit strong land-ocean contrasts in changes in surface temperature and relative humidity, but little land-ocean contrast in changes in equivalent potential temperature. A theory that assumes equal changes in equivalent potential temperat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Byrne, Michael Patrick, O'Gorman, Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85601
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-0816