Search Results - "Findell, Kirsten L"

Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake by Green, Julia K., Seneviratne, Sonia I., Berg, Alexis M., Findell, Kirsten L., Hagemann, Stefan, Lawrence, David M., Gentine, Pierre

“…Although the terrestrial biosphere absorbs about 25 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, the rate of land carbon uptake remains highly…”
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The Impact of Anthropogenic Land Use and Land Cover Change on Regional Climate Extremes by Findell, Kirsten L, Berg, Alexis, Gentine, Pierre, Krasting, John P, Lintner, Benjamin R, Malyshev, Sergey, Jr, Joseph A Santanello, Shevliakova, Elena

“…Recent research highlights the role of land surface processes in heat waves, droughts, and other extreme events. Here we use an earth system model (ESM) from…”
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Probability of afternoon precipitation in eastern United States and Mexico enhanced by high evaporation by Findell, Kirsten L., Gentine, Pierre, Lintner, Benjamin R., Kerr, Christopher

“…Feedbacks between soil moisture and precipitation are among the most important land–atmosphere interactions. An analysis of evaporative fluxes over North…”
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Coherent Mechanistic Patterns of Tropical Land Hydroclimate Changes by Duan, Suqin Q., Findell, Kirsten L., Fueglistaler, Stephan A.

“…Changes in tropical (30 S–30 N) land hydroclimate following CO2‐induced global warming are organized according to climatological aridity index (AI) and daily…”
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LAND—ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: The LoCo Perspective by Santanello, Joseph A., Dirmeyer, Paul A., Ferguson, Craig R., Findell, Kirsten L., Tawfik, Ahmed B., Berg, Alexis, Ek, Michael, Gentine, Pierre, Guillod, Benoit P., van Heerwaarden, Chiel, Roundy, Joshua, Wulfmeyer, Volker

“…Land–atmosphere (L-A) interactions are a main driver of Earth’s surface water and energy budgets; as such, they modulate near-surface climate, including clouds…”
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Diminishing seasonality of subtropical water availability in a warmer world dominated by soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks by Zhou, Sha, Williams, A. Park, Lintner, Benjamin R., Findell, Kirsten L., Keenan, Trevor F., Zhang, Yao, Gentine, Pierre

“…Global warming is expected to cause wet seasons to get wetter and dry seasons to get drier, which would have broad social and ecological implications. However,…”
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Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment by Seneviratne, Sonia I., Wilhelm, Micah, Stanelle, Tanja, van den Hurk, Bart, Hagemann, Stefan, Berg, Alexis, Cheruy, Frederique, Higgins, Matthew E., Meier, Arndt, Brovkin, Victor, Claussen, Martin, Ducharne, Agnès, Dufresne, Jean-Louis, Findell, Kirsten L., Ghattas, Joséfine, Lawrence, David M., Malyshev, Sergey, Rummukainen, Markku, Smith, Benjamin

“…The Global Land‐Atmosphere Climate Experiment–Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (GLACE‐CMIP5) is a multimodel experiment investigating the impact…”
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Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Land Cover Change on Climate by Findell, Kirsten L., Shevliakova, Elena, Milly, P. C. D., Stouffer, Ronald J.

“…Equilibrium experiments with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory’s climate model are used to investigate the impact of anthropogenic land cover change on…”
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Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes by Zhou, Sha, Yu, Bofu, Lintner, Benjamin R., Findell, Kirsten L., Zhang, Yao

“…Increases in atmospheric CO 2 concentration affect continental runoff through radiative and physiological forcing. However, how climate and land surface…”
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Impact of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions on Surface Temperature Distribution by Berg, Alexis, Lintner, Benjamin R., Findell, Kirsten L., Malyshev, Sergey, Loikith, Paul C., Gentine, Pierre

“…Understanding how different physical processes can shape the probability distribution function (PDF) of surface temperature, in particular the tails of the…”
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Reduced Moisture Transport Linked to Drought Propagation Across North America by Herrera‐Estrada, Julio E., Martinez, J. Alejandro, Dominguez, Francina, Findell, Kirsten L., Wood, Eric F., Sheffield, Justin

“…Droughts can have devastating societal impacts. Yet, we do not fully understand the mechanisms that control their development, possibly affecting our ability…”
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Three Regimes of Temperature Distribution Change Over Dry Land, Moist Land, and Oceanic Surfaces by Duan, Suqin Q., Findell, Kirsten L., Wright, Jonathon S.

“…Climate model simulations project different regimes of summertime temperature distribution changes under a quadrupling of CO2 for dry land, moist land, and…”
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Rising Temperatures Increase Importance of Oceanic Evaporation as a Source for Continental Precipitation by Findell, Kirsten L., Keys, Patrick W., van der Ent, Ruud J., Lintner, Benjamin R., Berg, Alexis, Krasting, John P.

“…Understanding vulnerabilities of continental precipitation to changing climatic conditions is of critical importance to society at large. Terrestrial…”
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Dynamical Seasonal Predictions of Tropical Cyclone Activity: Roles of Sea Surface Temperature Errors and Atmosphere–Land Initialization by Zhang, Gan, Murakami, Hiroyuki, Yang, Xiaosong, Findell, Kirsten L., Wittenberg, Andrew T., Jia, Liwei

“…Climate models often show errors in simulating and predicting tropical cyclone (TC) activity, but the sources of these errors are not well understood. This…”
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An analysis of the soil moisture-rainfall feedback, based on direct observations from Illinois by Findell, K.L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.), Eltahir, E.A.B

“…Many global and regional climate modeling studies have demonstrated the importance of the initial soil water condition in their simulations of regional…”
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Daytime-only mean data enhance understanding of land–atmosphere coupling by Yin, Zun, Findell, Kirsten L, Dirmeyer, Paul, Shevliakova, Elena, Malyshev, Sergey, Ghannam, Khaled, Raoult, Nina, Tan, Zhihong

“…Land–atmosphere (L–A) interactions encompass the co-evolution of the land surface and overlying planetary boundary layer, primarily during daylight hours…”
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An Enhanced Model of Land Water and Energy for Global Hydrologic and Earth-System Studies by Milly, P. C. D., Malyshev, Sergey L., Shevliakova, Elena, Dunne, Krista A., Findell, Kirsten L., Gleeson, Tom, Liang, Zhi, Phillipps, Peter, Stouffer, Ronald J., Swenson, Sean

“…LM3 is a new model of terrestrial water, energy, and carbon, intended for use in global hydrologic analyses and as a component of earth-system and…”
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Data Length Requirements for Observational Estimates of Land–Atmosphere Coupling Strength by Findell, Kirsten L., Gentine, Pierre, Lintner, Benjamin R., Guillod, Benoit P.

“…Multiple metrics have been developed in recent years to characterize the strength of land–atmosphere coupling in regional and global climate models. Evaluation…”
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Impact of Common Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on Global Drought and Pluvial Frequency by Findell, Kirsten L., Delworth, Thomas L.

“…Climate model simulations run as part of the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Drought Working Group initiative were analyzed to determine the…”
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Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interactions: Part I: Framework Development by Findell, Kirsten L., Eltahir, Elfatih A. B.

“…This paper investigates the influence of soil moisture on the development and triggering of convection in different early-morning atmospheric conditions. A…”
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