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Coherent Mechanistic Patterns of Tropical Land Hydroclimate Changes
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2023
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Source: Geophysical Research Letters, 50(7)
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Journal Title:Geophysical Research Letters
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Description:Changes in tropical (30 S–30 N) land hydroclimate following CO2-induced global warming are organized according to climatological aridity index (AI) and daily soil moisture (SM) percentiles. The transform from geographical space to this novel process-oriented phase space allows for interpretation of local, daily mechanistic relationships between key hydroclimatic variables in the context of time-mean and/ or global-mean energetic constraints and the wet-get-wetter/dry-get-drier paradigm. Results from 16 CMIP models show coherent patterns of change in the AI/SM phase space that are aligned with the established soil-moisture/evapotranspiration regimes. We introduce an active-rain regime as a special case of the
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Source:Geophysical Research Letters, 50(7)
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ISSN:0094-8276;1944-8007;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND
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