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| DOI | 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0262.1 |
| The Relative Contributions of Temperature and Moisture to Heat Stress Changes under Warming | |
| Lutsko N.J. | |
| 发表日期 | 2021 |
| ISSN | 0894-8755 |
| 起始页码 | 901 |
| 结束页码 | 917 |
| 卷号 | 34期号:3 |
| 英文摘要 | Increases in the severity of heat stress extremes are potentially one of the most impactful consequences of climate change, affecting human comfort, productivity, health, and mortality in many places on Earth. Heat stress results from a combination of elevated temperature and humidity, but the relative contributions of each of these to heat stress changes have yet to be quantified. Here, conditions for the baseline specific humidity are derived for when specific humidity or temperature dominates heat stress changes, as measured using the equivalent potential temperature (uE). Separate conditions are derived over ocean and over land, in addition to a condition for when relative humidity changes make a larger contribution than the Clausius–Clapeyron response at fixed relative humidity. These conditions are used to interpret the uE responses in transient warming simulations with an ensemble of models participating in phase 6 of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project. The regional pattern of uE changes is shown to be largely determined by the pattern of specific humidity changes, with the pattern of temperature changes playing a secondary role. This holds whether considering changes in seasonal-mean uE or in extreme (98th-percentile) uE events, and uncertainty in the response of specific humidity to warming is shown to be the leading source of uncertainty in the uE response at most land locations. Finally, analysis of ERA5 data demonstrates that the pattern of observed uE changes is also well explained by the pattern of specific humidity changes. These results demonstrate that understanding regional changes in specific humidity is largely sufficient for understanding regional changes in heat stress. © 2020 American Meteorological Society. |
| 英文关键词 | Climate change; Climate models; Earth (planet); Elevated temperature; Ensemble of models; Model inter comparisons; Potential temperature; Relative contribution; Relative humidity changes; Temperature changes; Transient warming; Thermal stress |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 来源期刊 | Journal of Climate
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/170920 |
| 作者单位 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, San diego, CA, United States |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lutsko N.J.. The Relative Contributions of Temperature and Moisture to Heat Stress Changes under Warming[J],2021,34(3). |
| APA | Lutsko N.J..(2021).The Relative Contributions of Temperature and Moisture to Heat Stress Changes under Warming.Journal of Climate,34(3). |
| MLA | Lutsko N.J.."The Relative Contributions of Temperature and Moisture to Heat Stress Changes under Warming".Journal of Climate 34.3(2021). |
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