cc: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Thomas R Karl <thomas.r.karl@noaa.gov>, Kevin Trenberth <trenbert@cgd.ucar.edu>
date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:44:53 -0600
from: Aiguo Dai <adai@ucar.edu>
subject: Re: ET and PDSI
to: trenbert@ucar.edu

   Kevin,
   Sorry to hear that. I tried to tone down the statements regarding the global implications
   of the results, as
   our CLM3-simulated soil moisture (forced by observed precip and temp, etc.) seems to
   support the
   conclusion based on our PDSI. The IPCC AR4 also shows (Fig. 10.12) that soil moisture will
   become
   drier at northern latitudes even though precip increases there. I think that the
   calculations of surface evaporation,
   runoff, soil moisture, and other land surface processes are much more sophisticated in
   current global climate models
   than in simple water balance models (like the Palmer model). Thus the climate model results
   avoid most of the
   issues dicussed by Hobbins et al. (e.g., related to ET calculation, effects of vegetation,
   snow cover, changes in
   humidity, radiation, and winds).
   Regards,
   Aiguo
   Aiguo
   Kevin Trenberth wrote:

Aiguo
I can't say that I like this paper at all.
Kevin




Hi, Phil,

Our GRL paper finally has come out. Below is the ref. and a link.

Best regards,

Aiguo

Hobbins, M. T., *A. Dai*, M. L. Roderick, and G. D. Farquhar, 2008:
*Revisiting potential evapotranspiration parameterizations as drivers of
long-term water balance trends. */Geophys. Res. Lett./, *35*, L12403,
doi:10.1029/2008GL033840 (Paper)
[1]<http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/papers/Hobbins_etal08-ET-PDSI.pdf>



Phil Jones wrote:


 Aiguo,
   Thanks. It wasn't me slowing the ms down!

 Another factor in addition to wind and radiation is vapour pressure.
 In case you've not seen the attached here it is. Vapour Pressue and q
are
 going up as T goes up. RH stays much the same.

  We've submitted a longer paper on this dataset. It is rather short
 though - only going back to 1973.

 Cheers
 Phil


At 16:49 14/02/2008, you wrote:


Hi Phil,

The manuscript is attached, which took a while to get through the
review process, but  look like it will be
accepted  after some revision.

The main conclusion is that changes in wind speed and sfc radiation
may be important in water balance
calculation for wet regions. Because the PDSI model considers only T
and P changes, its application over
wet, energy-limited regions may be questionable. We still need to
work out this on a global basis. On the
other hand, the PDSI results from Dai et al. (2004) illustrate the
potential drying from surface warming and
precip changes alone, and this drying appears to have happened over
many regions (e.g., most Africa, etc.).

Aiguo



Phil Jones wrote:


 Aiguo,

        I hear you're doing a paper with Hobbins, Roderick and
Farquhar.
 Is it possible to send me a copy of this?

 Cheers
 Phil



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