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Markku Rummukainen
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Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment
Författare
Summary, in English
The Global Land-Atmosphere Climate Experiment-Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (GLACE-CMIP5) is a multimodel experiment investigating the impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks in CMIP5 projections. We present here first GLACE-CMIP5 results based on five Earth System Models, focusing on impacts of projected changes in regional soil moisture dryness (mostly increases) on late 21st century climate. Projected soil moisture changes substantially impact climate in several regions in both boreal and austral summer. Strong and consistent effects are found on temperature, especially for extremes (about 1-1.5K for mean temperature and 2-2.5K for extreme daytime temperature). In the Northern Hemisphere, effects on mean and heavy precipitation are also found in most models, but the results are less consistent than for temperature. A direct scaling between soil moisture-induced changes in evaporative cooling and resulting changes in temperature mean and extremes is found in the simulations. In the Mediterranean region, the projected soil moisture changes affect about 25% of the projected changes in extreme temperature.
Avdelning/ar
- Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
5212-5217
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Geophysical Research Letters
Volym
40
Issue
19
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Ämne
- Physical Geography
- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Nyckelord
- CMIP5
- soil moisture
- feedbacks
- climate extremes
- land-atmosphere
- interactions
- projections
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1944-8007