Sentences with phrase «additional water vapor»

There is no confusion that the uniform distribution of heat results in the poles becoming warmer with a reduction in ice cover, and increased snow from additional water vapor.

Since water vapor is the most abundant and potent greenhouse gas, that additional water vapor warmed the atmosphere which warms the oceans and produces more water vapor.

Additional water vapor in the atmosphere is the fuel for the big storms, he says.

Once an ice crystal has formed, it absorbs and freezes additional water vapor from the surrounding air, growing into a snow crystal or snow pellet, which then falls to Earth.

This additional water vapor increases the odds of heavier rain.

As the atmosphere warms it can hold more water; that additional water vapor provides more of the warming than is directl caused by CO2.

(I think that an anomalously warm ocean surface heated from below would lead to more evaporation, and the additional water vapor would give a positive greenhouse effect that would partially offset the effect of a drop in greenhouse gas concentrations.)

Then, since water vapor is a greenhouse gas, this additional water vapor causes the temperature to go up even further — a positive feedback.

what is the effect of this additional water vapor in the atmosphere?

Thus there is no additional water vapor due to GH temperature increase and no change in cloud volume and no mechanism to modulate the power received from the sun which in the case of 2x CO2 is a constant.

The additional water vapor, acting as a greenhouse gas, absorbs energy that would otherwise escape to space and so causes further warming.

Ozone values are modeled changes relative to 1980 from simulations with greenhouse gas (GHG) increases alone (blue), GHG increases and the additional water vapor produced by methane oxidation (red), and GHG increases with water vapor from both methane oxidation and increased transport from the troposphere (green).