Tightening of tropical ascent and high clouds key to precipitation change in a warmer climate

The sensitivity of global precipitation to warming is largely governed by changes in atmospheric longwave radiation, a function of cloud cover. Here the authors show that tightening of the tropical circulation with warming drives a decrease in high cloud cover, resulting in higher precipitation chan...

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Main Authors: Hui Su, Jonathan H. Jiang, J. David Neelin, T. Janice Shen, Chengxing Zhai, Qing Yue, Zhien Wang, Lei Huang, Yong-Sang Choi, Graeme L. Stephens, Yuk L. Yung
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/badc8d28d3cb47c4b295ef22ad3b15cb
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