How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring?

By Frank J. Wentz, L. Ricciardulli, Kyle A. Hilburn, C. Mears. Science, 2007

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Cosmic Rays and Climate (2005, background): “Recent observations suggest that precipitation and total atmospheric water have increased at about the same rate of 7% per K of surface warming over the past two decades, consistent with the Clausius-Clapeyron equation [147].”
Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “Starting from the 1980s, radiosondes [Ross and Elliott, 2001] and SSMI [Wentz and Schabel, 2000; Trenberth et al., 2005; Wentz et al., 2007] showed upward trends in the lower and free troposphere (below 10 km) on regional to global scales.”
Current changes in tropical precipitation (2010, methodology): “…Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) and also atmosphere-only experiments (AMIP3) forced with observed sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice (Wentz et al 2007, Allan and Soden 2007) although the results are highly sensitive to the time period and data set used (John et al 2009, Liepert and…”
Energetic Constraints on Precipitation Under Climate Change (2012, background): “The relationship with temperature changes found above (dP/dT = 3.4% K-1) is weaker than calculated by Wentz et al. (2007), who estimated a 7% K-1 response for a shorter time period (Adler et al. 2008), and is also weaker than estimated changes in ocean evaporation (Yu 2007; Li et al. 2011).”