Land use and land cover changes strongly modulate warm-season precipitation over the Central United States

Maoyi Huang1, Anjana Devanand2, David M Lawrence3, Colin M. Zarzycki4, Zhe Feng1 and Peter Lawrence3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States