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RISExternal Influences on Modeled and Observed Cloud Trends
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nderstanding the cloud response to external forcing is a major challenge for climate science. This crucial goal is complicated by intermodel differences in simulating present and future cloud cover and by observational ...
Metrics for the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation: Toward Routine Benchmarks for Climate Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: etrics are proposed?that is, a few summary statistics that condense large amounts of data from observations or model simulations?encapsulating the diurnal cycle of precipitation. Vector area averaging of Fourier amplitude ...
Relative Contributions of Mean-State Shifts and ENSO-Driven Variability to Precipitation Changes in a Warming Climate
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: l Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important driver of regional hydroclimate variability through far-reaching teleconnections. This study uses simulations performed with coupled general circulation models (CGCMs) to ...
Detection and Attribution of Temperature Changes in the Mountainous Western United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Large changes in the hydrology of the western United States have been observed since the mid-twentieth century. These include a reduction in the amount of precipitation arriving as snow, a decline in snowpack at low and ...
An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I)
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP), initiated in 1989 under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme, undertook the systematic validation, diagnosis, and intercomparison of the performance of ...