Auxiliary material for
A Canonical Response of Precipitation Characteristics to Global Warming from CMIP5 Models
WILLIAM K.-M. LAU
(Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA, Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland) H.-T.
WU
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland)
K.-M. KIM
(Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland)
Geophysical Research Letter, 2013
Introduction
The auxiliary materials are in two files: a text file that includes supplementary text
Sections S1 to S6, Table S1 and S2; and a figure file that includes Figures S1 to S6. The
text Sections provide : description of the methodology used in this study (S1); the rainfall
climatology of the CMIP5 models (S2); the zonal mean rainfall response at different
longitude sectors (S3); the regional rainfall PDF response for land vs. ocean, and deep
tropics vs. high-latitudes (S4); rainfall response for DCO2 scenario (S5); and GPCP
climatology of dry-month distribution (S5), respectively. Table S1 lists the CMIP5
models and observational data sets and their corresponding resolutions analyzed in this
study. Table S2 gives changes in normalized ensemble mean rain rate, mean surface
temperature, and sensitivity at different latitudinal zones under TCO2. Fig. S1 shows
rainfall climatology of the historical run from the CMIP5 models and the climatology
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from GPCP and TRMM observation. Fig. S2 shows the geographic distributions of
different types of rain calculated respectively with CMIP5 models and GPCP
observation. Fig. S3 shows the zonal mean rainfall response under TCO2 for four
different meridional sectors. Fig. S4 shows the rainfall response for land vs. ocean, and
deep tropics vs. high-latitudes. Fig. S5 shows the rainfall response for DCO2. Fig. S6
shows the geographic distribution of the GPCP climatology of dry-month duration.