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SUBMITTER: Dagan G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853411 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dagan Guy G Stier Philip P Watson-Parris Duncan D
Geophysical research letters 20190902 17-18
Global mean precipitation changes due to climate change were previously shown to be relatively small and well constrained by the energy budget. However, local precipitation changes can be much more significant. In this paper we propose that for large enough scales, for which the water budget is closed (precipitation [<i>P</i>] roughly equals evaporation [<i>E</i>]), changes in <i>P</i> approach the small global mean value. However, for smaller scales, for which <i>P</i> and <i>E</i> are not nece ...[more]