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• Change in the magnitude and mechanisms of global temperature variability with warming

  Natural unforced variability in global mean surface air temperature (GMST) can mask or exaggerate human-caused global warming, and thus a complete understanding of this variability is highly desirable.

  • 04/09/2017

  • Nature Climate Change
  • • Global Warming
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Science

• Two opposing effects of absorbing aerosols on global-mean precipitation

  Absorbing aerosols affect global-mean precipitation primarily in two ways. They give rise to stronger shortwave atmospheric heating, which acts to suppress precipitation. Depending on the top-of-the-atmosphere radiative flux change, they can also warm up the surface with a tendency to increase precipitation.

  • 02/07/2010

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • • Atmosphere
    • Solar Radiation
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Aerosols
    • Climate Impacts
    • Hydrology
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Rainfall
    • Geophysical Research Letters
    • Yi Ming
    • V. Ramaswamy
    • Geeta Persad