Low clouds link equilibrium climate sensitivity to hydrological sensitivity

Low clouds link equilibrium climate sensitivity to hydrological sensitivity

Low clouds link equilibrium climate sensitivity to hydrological sensitivity, Published online: 17 September 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0272-0

The connections between global mean temperature and precipitation responses to CO2 doubling (equilibrium climate and hydrological sensitivity) are driven through low-cloud responses to surface warming, according to MIROC5 perturbation experiments.