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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Main Authors: Byrne, Michael Patrick (Contributor), O'Gorman, Paul Ambrose (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2014-03-10T20:31:28Z.
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