
Tropical precipitation and convection changes in the Max Planck Institute Earth system model (MPI‐ESM) in response to CO 2 forcing
Author(s) -
Crueger Traute,
Hohenegger Cathy,
May Wilhelm
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of advances in modeling earth systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.03
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1942-2466
DOI - 10.1002/jame.20012
Subject(s) - forcing (mathematics) , convection , precipitation , climatology , environmental science , tropical cyclone , deep convection , atmospheric sciences , climate model , climate change , meteorology , geology , physics , oceanography
Key Points Convection scheme obeys climate change rules derived from CRM except over land Link to land surface processes yields different precipitation sensitivity to CO2 Tropical deep convection gets less frequent (‐5.5%/K) and deeper (3.8 %/K)