Water vapor feedback and global warming

IM Held, BJ Soden - Annual review of energy and the …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas, the most important gaseous source
of infrared opacity in the atmosphere. As the concentrations of other greenhouse gases …

Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate

SC Sherwood, R Roca, TM Weckwerth… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress is reviewed in the understanding of convective interaction with water vapor
and changes associated with water vapor in warmer climates. Progress includes new …

From ERA-Interim to ERA5: the considerable impact of ECMWF's next-generation reanalysis on Lagrangian transport simulations

L Hoffmann, G Günther, D Li, O Stein… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts'(ECMWF's) next-generation
reanalysis ERA5 provides many improvements, but it also confronts the community with a …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2001: The scientific basis

JT Houghton - 2001 - billhowell.ca
This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes

S Bony, JL Dufresne, H Le Treut, JJ Morcrette… - Climate dynamics, 2004 - Springer
Clouds are sensitive to changes in both the large-scale circulation and the thermodynamic
structure of the atmosphere. In the tropics, temperature changes that occur on seasonal to …

Does the earth have an adaptive infrared iris?

RS Lindzen, MD Chou, AY Hou - Bulletin of the American …, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observations and analyses of water vapor and clouds in the Tropics over the past decade
show that the boundary between regions of high and low free-tropospheric relative humidity …

Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system

R Colman, BJ Soden - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas that dominates Earth's terrestrial radiation absorption. As
the planetary temperature warms, forced by increasing CO 2 and other greenhouse gases …

[HTML][HTML] Seamless poleward atmospheric energy transports and implications for the Hadley circulation

KE Trenberth, DP Stepaniak - Journal of Climate, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
Seamless Poleward Atmospheric Energy Transports and Implications for the Hadley Circulation
in: Journal of Climate Volume 16 Issue 22 (2003) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

[HTML][HTML] Pairing measurements of the water vapor isotope ratio with humidity to deduce atmospheric moistening and dehydration in the tropical midtroposphere

D Noone - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Pairing Measurements of the Water Vapor Isotope Ratio with Humidity to Deduce
Atmospheric Moistening and Dehydration in the Tropical Midtroposphere in: Journal of …

Characterizing tropical cirrus life cycle, evolution, and interaction with upper-tropospheric water vapor using Lagrangian trajectory analysis of satellite observations

Z Luo, WB Rossow - Journal of climate, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cirrus evolution and its relation to upper-tropospheric water vapor (UTWV) are
examined in the paper by analyzing satellite-derived cloud data, UTWV data from infrared …