Conservation of dry air, water, and energy in CAM and its impact on tropical rainfall

Bryce E Harrop1, Mike S Pritchard2, Hossein Parishani3, Andrew Gettelman4, Samson M Hagos5, Peter Hjort Lauritzen4, L. Ruby Leung5, Jian Lu5, Kyle Pressel5 and Koichi Sakaguchi6, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States