The impact of sea surface temperature biases on North American precipitation biases and drought variability in a GFDL climate model

Nathaniel C Johnson1, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy2, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg2, Baoqiang Xiang3, Gabriel Andres Vecchi2 and Sarah B Kapnick2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States