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DOI	10.1038/s41467-021-22406-7
	Ocean surface energy balance allows a constraint on the sensitivity of precipitation to global warming
	Wang W.; Chakraborty T.C.; Xiao W.; Lee X.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Climate models generally predict higher precipitation in a future warmer climate. Whether the precipitation intensification occurred in response to historical warming continues to be a subject of debate. Here, using observations of the ocean surface energy balance as a hydrological constraint, we find that historical warming intensified precipitation at a rate of 0.68 ± 0.51% K−1, which is slightly higher than the multi-model mean calculation for the historical climate (0.38 ± 1.18% K−1). The reduction in ocean surface albedo associated with melting of sea ice is a positive contributor to the precipitation temperature sensitivity. On the other hand, the observed increase in ocean heat storage weakens the historical precipitation. In this surface energy balance framework, the incident shortwave radiation at the ocean surface and the ocean heat storage exert a dominant control on the precipitation temperature sensitivity, explaining 91% of the inter-model spread and the spread across climate scenarios in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. © 2021, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	albedo; climate modeling; energy balance; global warming; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; melting; sea ice; sea surface; shortwave radiation; surface energy; albedo; article; calculation; climate change; energy balance; greenhouse effect; heat; melting point; precipitation; sea ice; temperature sensitivity
来源期刊	Nature Communications
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/250718
作者单位	Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China; School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang W.,Chakraborty T.C.,Xiao W.,et al. Ocean surface energy balance allows a constraint on the sensitivity of precipitation to global warming[J],2021,12(1).
APA	Wang W.,Chakraborty T.C.,Xiao W.,&Lee X..(2021).Ocean surface energy balance allows a constraint on the sensitivity of precipitation to global warming.Nature Communications,12(1).
MLA	Wang W.,et al."Ocean surface energy balance allows a constraint on the sensitivity of precipitation to global warming".Nature Communications 12.1(2021).