Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Robustness of anthropogenically forced decadal precipitation changes projected for the 21st century

  • Honghai Zhang,
  • Thomas L. Delworth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03611-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Decadal precipitation changes are dominated by random natural variability, posing a challenge for projecting anthropogenic impacts. Here the authors use large suites of model simulations to show that human-induced future decadal shifts in regional precipitation can be distinguished from natural variability.