TY - T1 - Surface air relative humidities spuriously exceeding 100% in CMIP5 model output and their impact on future projections SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308149 T3 - A1 - Ruosteenoja, Kimmo; Jylha, Kirsti; Räisänen, Jouni; Mäkelä, Antti A2 - PB - Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - In 17 out of the 29 Phase 5 of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) climate models examined in this work, near-surface air relative humidity (RH) frequently exceeded 100% with respect to ice in polar areas in winter. The degree of supersaturation varied considerably across the models, and the same evidently applies to the causes of the phenomenon. Consultations with the modeling groups revealed three categories of explanations for supersaturation occurrence: specification of RH with res... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - ANTARCTICA; LAND; RISK; ICE; 114 Physical sciences N1 - PP - ER -