A theoretical approach to assess soil moisture–climate coupling across CMIP5 and GLACE-CMIP5 experiments

Schwingshackl, Clemens; Hirschi, Martin; Seneviratne, Sonia I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1217-2018

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1217-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1217-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

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17 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 17 Oct 2018

A theoretical approach to assess soil moisture–climate coupling across CMIP5 and GLACE-CMIP5 experiments

Clemens Schwingshackl, Martin Hirschi, and Sonia I. Seneviratne

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RC1: 'comments on a theoretical approach to assess soil moisture-climate coupling across CMIP5 and GLACE-CMIP5 experiment (esd-2018-34)', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Author comment to RC1', Clemens Schwingshackl, 14 Sep 2018
RC2: 'A theoretical approach to assess soil-moiture climate coupling across CMIP5 and GLACE-CMIP5 experiments', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Author comment to RC2', Clemens Schwingshackl, 14 Sep 2018

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ED: Publish as is (17 Sep 2018) by Zhenghui Xie

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Changing amounts of water in the soil can have a strong impact on atmospheric temperatures. We present a theoretical approach that can be used to quantify the effect that soil moisture has on temperature and validate it using climate model simulations in which soil moisture is prescribed. This theoretical approach also allows us to study the soil moisture effect on temperature in standard climate models, even if they do not provide dedicated soil moisture simulations.