A global discrepancy in historical near surface humidity trends between Earth System Models and observations.
Isla Simpson1, Karen A McKinnon2, David M Lawrence3, Daniel Kennedy3, Flavio Lehner4, Richard Seager5 and Sean C Swenson6, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Departments of Statistics and Atmospheric & Oceanic Science and Institute of Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States