• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Contrasting Phase Changes of Precipitation Annual Cycle Between Land and Ocean Under Global Warming
  • Beteiligte: Song, Fengfei; Lu, Jian; Leung, L. Ruby; Liu, Fukai
  • Erschienen: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2020
  • Erschienen in: Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (2020) 20
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090327
  • ISSN: 0094-8276; 1944-8007
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  • Beschreibung: AbstractWe report a land‐ocean contrast in the phase change of precipitation annual cycle in multimodel ensemble simulations as climate warms, with a robust delay over land (0–40°N/S) versus an advance (0–40°N/S) or no clear (0–25°N/S) phase changes over ocean. The robust delay over land is caused by the increased effective atmospheric heat capacity CA. Over ocean, the increased CA favors a phase delay, while the land‐ocean precipitation contrast during the peak rainy season favors a phase advance. The latter overwhelms the former and causes a seasonal advance over 0–40°N/S, while the two factors cancel out and result in no phase changes over 0–25°N/S. Under the atmospheric energetic constraint, the land‐ocean precipitation contrast in the peak rainy season is related to their opposite amplitude changes of surface temperature annual cycle: Seasonally different wind changes enhance the amplitude over ocean, while increased CA and surface cooling feedback reduce the amplitude over land.
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