Understanding decreases in land relative humidity with global warming: Conceptual model and GCM simulations

Climate models simulate a strong land–ocean contrast in the response of near-surface relative humidity to global warming; relative humidity tends to increase slightly over oceans but decrease substantially over land. Surface energy balance arguments have been used to understand the response over oce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Byrne, M, O'Gorman, P
Format: Journal article
Published: American Meteorological Society 2016