To better understand the variability of precipitation over the Asia-Pacific region, atmospheric moisture anomalies associated with two Indo-Pacific indices of variability, NINO3.4 and Pacific-Indian Dipole, are analysed for the ERA5 reanalysis and for simulations by 35 CMIP6 climate models, including ten that provide vertically integrated moisture flux data. The anomaly patterns associated with the indices are determined using...

Motivated by the wide range of projections of regional rainfall (or precipitation, pr) based on the CMIP5 ensemble of global climate models, we investigate the atmospheric moisture budget of idealized rising‐CO 2 (1pctCO2) simulations from 10 models submitted to CMIP6. We use the new CMIP6 standard variables, the vertically integrated eastward and northward moisture flux, and provide a multi‐model assessment of these, their co...