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Supplementary Material
Intensified land surface control on boundary layer growth in a changing
climate
Paul A. Dirmeyer, Zaiyu Wang, Mbongowo J. Mbuh and Holly E. Norton
George Mason University, Fairfax VA
Submitted to: Geophysical Research Letters
26 August 2013
Resubmitted:
23 November 2013; 12 January 2014
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Table S1: Models whose data are used in this study.
Center
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation - Bureau of Meteorology *
Institute for Numerical Mathematics
University of Tokyo Division of Climate System
Research
Met Office Hadley Centre
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
Meteorological Agency
NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Norwegian Climate Centre
NOAA-Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
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Model Version
CanESM2
ACCESS1-0
Resolution
128 x 64
192 x 145
INM-CM4
MIROC5
180 x 120
256 x 128
HadGEM2-ES
MRI-CGCM3
192 x 145
320 x 160
GISS-E2-R
CESM1-CAM5
NorESM1-M
GFDL-ESM2M
144 x 90
288 x 192
144 x 96
144 x 90
* No surface soil moisture data from RCP 4.5 simulation.
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Fig S1: Multi-model mean of the three sensitivity indices averaged for MAM in the
historical climate scenario. Areas are masked where the multi-model mean of the
correlations is not significant. Units are Wm-2 in the middle panel, Pa otherwise.
Striping indicates where at least 8 models concur on an increase (vertical) or
decrease (horizontal) in RCP 8.5.
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Fig S2: As in Fig S1 for SON.
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Fig S3: As in Fig S1 for DJF.
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Fig S4: Sensitivity of PLCL to surface soil wetness multiplied by the interannual
dP
standard deviation of soil wetness ( w LCL ) averaged for MAM for each of the
dw
10 models in the historical climate scenario. Areas where correlation between
PLCL and w are not significant are masked. Units are Pa.
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Figure S5. As in Fig S4 for JJA
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Fig S6: As in Fig S4 for SON.
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Fig S7: As in Fig S4 for DJF.
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Fig S8: As in Fig S4 for the sensitivity of surface sensible heat flux H to surface soil
dH
wetness multiplied by the interannual standard deviation of soil wetness ( w
)
dw
averaged for MAM. Units are Wm-2.
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Fig S9: As in Fig S8 for JJA.
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Fig S10: As in Fig S8 for SON.
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Fig S11: As in Fig S8 for DJF.
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Fig S12: As in Fig S4 for the sensitivity of PLCL to surface sensible heat flux multiplied
dP
by the interannual standard deviation of heat flux (  H LCL ) averaged for MAM.
dH
Units are Pa.
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Fig S13: As in Fig S12 for JJA.
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Fig S14: As in Fig S12 for SON.
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Fig S15: As in Fig S12 for DJF.
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Fig S16: As in Fig 2 for the changes from historical to RCP4.5 (left) and from
historical to RCP8.5 (right) during MAM. Only 9 models contribute to the panels on
the left (See note in Table 1). Units are Wm-2 in (b) and (e), Pa otherwise.
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Fig S17: As in Fig S16 for SON.
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Fig S18: As in Fig S16 for DJF.