Global water vapor analyses over the oceans using Along Track Scanning Radiometer infrared data

2004 ◽  
Vol 109 (D2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Along Track ◽  
Global Water ◽  
Infrared Data

Global water vapor content decreases from 2003 to 2012: An analysis based on MODIS data

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kebiao Mao ◽  
Jingming Chen ◽  
Zhaoliang Li ◽  
Ying Ma ◽  
Yang Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Water Vapor Content ◽  
Modis Data ◽  
Global Water

The NVAP global water vapor data set: independent cross-comparison and multiyear variability

2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J Simpson ◽  
Jared S Berg ◽  
Chester J Koblinsky ◽  
Gary L Hufford ◽  
Brian Beckley
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Global Water

scholarly journals Global Hydrological Cycle Response to Rapid and Slow Global Warming

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (22) ◽  
pp. 8781-8786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Back ◽  
Karen Russ ◽  
Zhengyu Liu ◽  
Kuniaki Inoue ◽  
Jiaxu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Precipitation Changes ◽  
Global Surface ◽  
Global Mean ◽  
Global Water

Abstract This study analyzes the response of global water vapor to global warming in a series of fully coupled climate model simulations. The authors find that a roughly 7% K−1 rate of increase of water vapor with global surface temperature is robust only for rapid anthropogenic-like climate change. For slower warming that occurred naturally in the past, the Southern Ocean has time to equilibrate, producing a different pattern of surface warming, so that water vapor increases at only 4.2% K−1. This lower rate of increase of water vapor with warming is not due to relative humidity changes or differences in mean lower-tropospheric temperature. A temperature of over 80°C would be required in the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship to match the 4.2% K−1 rate of increase. Instead, the low rate of increase is due to spatially heterogeneous warming. During slower global warming, there is enhanced warming at southern high latitudes, and hence less warming in the tropics per kelvin of global surface temperature increase. This leads to a smaller global water vapor increase, because most of the atmospheric water vapor is in the tropics. A formula is proposed that applies to general warming scenarios. This study also examines the response of global-mean precipitation and the meridional profile of precipitation minus evaporation and compares the latter to thermodynamic scalings. It is found that global-mean precipitation changes are remarkably robust between rapid and slow warming. Thermodynamic scalings for the rapid- and slow-warming zonal-mean precipitation are similar, but the precipitation changes are significantly different, suggesting that circulation changes are important in driving these differences.

scholarly journals Rethinking How Water Circulates Between the Oceans and Land

Eos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Cook
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Water Circulation ◽  
Atmospheric Water ◽  
Global Water Cycle ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Global Water

A reexamination of the global water cycle shows that tropical coastlines exert a profound influence on atmospheric water circulation by wringing water vapor from the atmosphere.

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