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  • Atmospheric physics
  • Earth system science

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  • Hothouse climates are characterized by lower-tropospheric radiative heating, unlike typical cooling.
  • Previous models could not resolve convective-scale motions, leaving hothouse atmospheric behavior poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate atmospheric dynamics in hothouse climate states.
  • To understand the implications of lower-tropospheric radiative heating on the hydrologic cycle and cloud cover.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted climate simulations that explicitly resolve convection.
  • Analyzed the behavior of the hydrologic cycle and cloud cover under simulated hothouse conditions.

Main Results:

  • Identified a shift in the hydrologic cycle from a quasi-steady state to a 'relaxation oscillator' regime.
  • Observed intense precipitation outbursts separated by dry spells.
  • Found enhanced local precipitation fluxes, increased cloud cover, and a transiently unstable climate feedback parameter.

Conclusions:

  • Hothouse climates may exhibit 'temporal' convective self-organization.
  • These findings have implications for cloud dynamics and erosion processes in extreme warm climates.