Abstract: AbstractDaytime (0800?2000 Beijing time) and nighttime (2000?0800 Beijing time) precipitation at approximately 2100 stations in China from 1979 to 2014 was used to evaluate eight current reanalyses. Daytime, nighttime, and ...

Abstract: nowledge of the evaporative fraction (EF: the ratio of latent heat flux to the sum of sensible and latent heat fluxes) and its controls is particularly important for accurate estimates of water flux, heat exchange, and ...

Abstract: recipitation is expected to increase under global warming. However, large discrepancies in precipitation sensitivities to global warming among observations and models have been reported, partly owing to the large natural ...

Abstract: urface air temperature Ta is largely determined by surface net radiation Rn and its partitioning into latent (LE) and sensible heat fluxes (H). Existing model evaluations by comparison of absolute flux values are of limited ...

Abstract: AbstractLand surface temperature Ts provides essential supplementary information to surface air temperature, the most widely used metric in global warming studies. A lack of reliable observational Ts data makes assessing ...

Abstract: he geographic and temporal variability of the surface?3600-m cloud frequency and cloud-base height over the contiguous United States for a 5-yr period (2008?12) and the interannual variations for a 16-yr period (2000?15) ...

Abstract: AbstractDiurnal cycle of surface air temperature T is an important metric indicating the feedback of land?atmospheric interaction to global warming, whereas the ability of current reanalyses to reproduce its variation had ...