DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00765.1
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84947595467
论文题名: Projection of Summer Precipitation over the Southeastern United States in the Superparameterized CCSM4
作者: Zhu X. ; Stan C.
刊名: Journal of Climate
ISSN: 8948755
出版年: 2015
卷: 28, 期: 20 起始页码: 8052
结束页码: 8066
语种: 英语
英文摘要: Projections of the hydrological cycle over the southeastern United States are compared between CCSM4 and the superparameterized model (SP-CCSM4). Under the extreme forcing of the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) climate change scenario, in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky, SP-CCSM4 projects a decrease in summer precipitation, whereas the conventionally parameterized CCSM4 projects an increase in summer rainfall. The projected reduction in summer precipitation in SP-CCSM4 is due to the remote influence from the northwest intrusion of the North Atlantic subtropical high, as well as the local decrease of soil moisture content. Both models show that summer precipitation over the southern United States is characterized by a positive feedback with soil moisture. However, in CCSM4 rainfall increases with increasing soil moisture and in SP-CCSM4 rainfall decreases with decreasing soil moisture. The different representation of cloud processes in the two models yields different responses of precipitation to the latent heat flux changes over the southeastern United States. Moreover, multivariate EOF analyses in the two models suggest that the local land-atmosphere interactions have a stronger influence on the projected changes of precipitation over the southeastern United States than does the North Atlantic subtropical high. © 2015 American Meteorological Society. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/50406
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作者单位: Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States; Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Zhu X.,Stan C.. Projection of Summer Precipitation over the Southeastern United States in the Superparameterized CCSM4[J]. Journal of Climate,2015-01-01,28(20)