Upper tropospheric humidity
Upper tropospheric humidity changes under constant relative humidity
... of upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) in a warming ...relative humidity. In the present study, we show that the upper tropospheric humidity, a weighted mean over a rela- ...
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Upper tropospheric humidity from SAPHIR on-board Megha-Tropiques
... the humidity sounder channels of SAPHIR payload on-board Megha-Tropiques ...of humidity up to the highest altitude possible with the present nadir- looking microwave humidity ...average upper ...
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Interannual Variability of Tropical Upper Tropospheric Humidity and Cloud: Current Climate Variation and Future Climate Change.
... xvii Abstract The theme of this research is to study the tropical water vapor and clouds, especially their relation with the large-scale environment at the interannual time scale as well as their changes in the future ...
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Tropical upper tropospheric humidity variations due to potential vorticity intrusions
... whenever upper tropospheric westerlies are strong (Waugh and Polvani, 2000). They can trigger convection as a re- sult of decreased stability and enhanced vertical motion and induce poleward advection ...
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Diurnal variation of upper tropospheric humidity and its relations to convective activities over tropical Africa
... constant humidity profiles of 40% and 5% relative humidity are assumed between 1000 hPa and 100 ...and humidity profiles are now inserted into the Synthetic Satellite Radiances (SYNSATRAD) radiative ...
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Overview and sample applications of SMILES and Odin-SMR retrievals of upper tropospheric humidity and cloud ice mass
... Despite covering a longer time period, the SMR di fference field has a more noisy 15 appearance due to the considerably lower data volume. The overall spatial patterns agree well between SMR and MLS, with e.g. the ...
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Overview and sample applications of SMILES and Odin-SMR retrievals of upper tropospheric humidity and cloud ice mass
... data used below were obtained), including the highest values since the 1998 El Niño. The ENSO state is known to have a profound influence on the climate in parts of the tropics. This impact reaches also the upper ...
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Project Name: Sustained generations of upper tropospheric humidity Climate Data Records from multiple sensors with multi-agency cooperation
... in upper troposphere, provide much better spatial coverage, however the data records are shorter, starting from late ...the upper tropospheric water ...
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The representation of tropical upper tropospheric water in EC Earth V2
... Tropical upper tropospheric humidity, clouds, and ice water content, as well as outgoing longwave ra- diation (OLR), are evaluated in the climate model EC Earth with the aid of satellite ...relative ...
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Evaluating Tropical Upper-tropospheric Water in Climate Models Using Satellite Data
... Upper-tropospheric humidity (UTH) undergoes large seasonal and regional changes in the tropics. Over land areas, convection is more intense, producing greater amounts of water at higher heights, and ...
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Simulating the effects of mid- to upper-tropospheric clouds on microwave emissions in EC-Earth using COSP
... P a per This study, however, represents the first all-sky, modelled, atmospheric microwave emission comparison with MHS (190.311 GHz). The microwave signal is not only sen- sitive to mid to ...
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Non-Gaussian Bayesian retrieval of tropical upper tropospheric cloud ice and water vapour from Odin-SMR measurements
... The objective of this article is to develop a retrieval al- gorithm that combines Odin-SMR measurement information with accurate a priori data from CloudSat and complemen- tary data sources. This is to enable combined ...
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Factors controlling upper tropospheric relative humidity
... We do not intend to model radiative, microphysical, and transport processes that determine temperature and water va- por pressure. We rather prescribe distributions of tempera- ture and water vapor mixing ratios and ...
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Tropospheric water vapour and relative humidity profiles from lidar and microwave radiometry
... Fig. 6. Seasonal vertical profiles (left) and seasonal mean values for different layers (right) of water vapour mixing ratio. The error bars indicate the standard deviation. 4 Statistical analysis of water vapour ...
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Enhancing Tropospheric Humidity Data Records from Satellite Microwave and Radiosonde Sensors
... for may other weather and climate applications, including validating the sim- ulations of UTH by weather and climate prediction models, and investigating the water vapor feedback in the climate system. However, ...
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Analytic model of upper tropospheric clouds in the tropical Hadley cell
... We have applied the model to the upper tropospheric clouds in the tropical Hadley cell. The key finding of the paper is that outflows from convective regions are expected to spread out with coverage that ...
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Technical Note: Using DEG CPCs at upper tropospheric temperatures
... At CLOUD5, which took place in fall 2011 at CERN, measurements were performed to study nucleation under upper tropospheric temperatures. The potential influence of the ambient 20 temperature on the ...
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Analysis of spatiotemporal variations in middle-tropospheric to upper-tropospheric methane during the Wenchuan Ms = 8.0 earthquake by three indices
... Italiano et al., 2008). Before the Wenchuan earthquake, various GPS observa- tion points and level observations showed accelerated activ- ity of different degrees. The LMS fault activity is character- ized by a ...
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Reanalysis comparisons of upper tropospheric–lower stratospheric jets and multiple tropopauses
... in upper tropospheric jet lo- cations and wind speeds (Manney and Hegglin, ...tropical upper tropospheric jets, may have significant ...
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Mid-upper tropospheric methane retrieval from IASI and its validation
... saa/products/search?datatype family=IASI). 2.2 Retrieval method and its optimization Similar to the AIRS CH 4 retrieval (Xiong et al., 2008), chan- nels in the whole CH 4 absorption band between 1200 and 1400 cm −1 that ...
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