Causes of large projected increases in hurricane precipitation rates with global warming

Recent climate modeling studies point to an increase in tropical cyclone rainfall rates in response to climate warming. These studies indicate that the percentage increase in tropical cyclone rainfall rates often outpaces the increase in saturation specific humidity expected from the Clausius-Clapeyron relation (~7% °C −1 ). We explore the change in tropical cyclone rainfall rates over all oceans under global warming using a high-resolution...