Future summer warming pattern under climate  change is affected by lapse-rate changes

Brogli, Roman; Lund Sørland, Silje; Kröner, Nico; Schär, Christoph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-1093-2021

Articles | Volume 2, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-1093-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-1093-2021

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Future summer warming pattern under climate change is affected by lapse-rate changes

Roman Brogli, Silje Lund Sørland, Nico Kröner, and Christoph Schär

Model code and software

Software to prepare idealized experiments Roman Brogli and Jesús Vergara-Temprado https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4890235

Short summary

In a warmer future climate, climate simulations predict that some land areas will experience excessive warming during summer. We show that the excessive summer warming is related to the vertical distribution of warming within the atmosphere. In regions characterized by excessive warming, much of the warming occurs close to the surface. In other regions, most of the warming is redistributed to higher levels in the atmosphere, which weakens the surface warming.