Southern Hemisphere subtropical drying as a transient response to warming

JM Kale Sniderman; Josephine R Brown; Jon D Woodhead; Andrew D King; Nathan P Gillett; Katarzyna B Tokarska; Katja Lorbacher; John Hellstrom; Russell N Drysdale; Malte Meinshausen

Journal article

Southern Hemisphere subtropical drying as a transient response to warming

JM Kale Sniderman, Josephine R Brown, Jon D Woodhead, Andrew D King, Nathan P Gillett, Katarzyna B Tokarska, Katja Lorbacher, John Hellstrom, Russell N Drysdale, Malte Meinshausen

Nature Climate Change | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0397-9

University of Melbourne Researchers

Josephine Brown Author Earth Sciences

John Hellstrom Author Earth Sciences

Kale Sniderman Author Earth Sciences

Malte Meinshausen Author Earth Sciences

Russell Drysdale Author Geography

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank P. Hope, L. Ashcroft, B. Timbal and R. Colman for comments on versions of the manuscript, and P. Whetton for discussions about this study. This research programme was supported by Australian Research Council grants DP0985214 and FL160100028 (to J.D.W.), DP130101829 (to J.D.W. and R.N.D.), DE120102530 (to J.M.K.S.), FT130100801 (to J.H.) and DE180100638 (to A.D.K.). We acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP5, and we thank the climate modelling groups (listed in Supplementary Table 1) for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP5, the US Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led the development of software infrastructure in partnership with the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals.