Extended Data Fig. 2: Dependence of relative humidity on temperature percentile.
From: Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land
Pseudo relative humidity over land (red) and ocean (blue) for the historical (solid) and ssp245 simulations (dashed). Over land, pseudo relative humidity is defined as the average specific humidity for days exceeding the x-th percentile of temperature divided by the corresponding average saturation specific humidity (Methods). Over ocean, pseudo relative humidity is defined as the pxth percentile of specific humidity divided by the pxth percentile of saturation specific humidity. Note that px is the percentile of land moist static energy in the historical simulation equal to the average moist static energy of days exceeding the xth percentile of land temperature.
