I'm also interesting in the coupling
between hydrological cycle, cloud feedbacks and circulation.
Not exact matches
On the Relationship
Between Uncertainties in Tropical Divergence and the
Hydrological Cycle in Global Models.»
As for your question about hurricanes, the argument given for the global mean
hydrological cycle doesn't apply to the hurricane because the global mean argument assumes an equilibrium
between radiative cooling and latent heat release.
Aerosols exert a forcing on the
hydrological cycle by modifying cloud condensation nuclei, ice nuclei, precipitation efficiency, and the ratio
between solar direct and diffuse radiation received.
The end of the first half of the Holocene —
between about 5 and 4 ka — was punctuated by rapid events at various latitudes, such as an abrupt increase in NH sea ice cover (Jennings et al., 2001); a decrease in Greenland deuterium excess, reflecting a change in the
hydrological cycle (Masson - Delmotte et al., 2005b); abrupt cooling events in European climate (Seppa and Birks, 2001; Lauritzen, 2003); widespread North American drought for centuries (Booth et al., 2005); and changes in South American climate (Marchant and Hooghiemstra, 2004).
The observed climate is just the equilibrium response to such variations with the positions of the air circulation systems and the speed of the
hydrological cycle always adjusting to bring energy differentials
between all the many ocean and atmosphere layers back towards equilibrium (Wilde's Law?).
The air circulation systems in both hemispheres move poleward and the ITCZ moves further north of the equator as the speed of the
hydrological cycle increases due to the cooler stratosphere increasing the temperature differential
between stratosphere and surface.
The air circulation systems in both hemispheres move back equatorward and the ITCZ moves nearer the equator as the speed of the
hydrological cycle decreases due to the warming stratosphere reducing the temperature differential
between stratosphere and surface.
The temporal relationship
between the Suess solar
cycle and particularly significant 210 yr oscillations in the speleothem δ18O records therefore supports the notion that solar variability played a significant role in driving centennial - scale changes in the
hydrological cycle in the subtropics during the Holocene.
As a physicist, the key to understanding the relationship
between GHE and the
hydrological cycle — and indeed the troposphere — is in embedded in the question of what happens with the energy flow
between the two levels where the planet receives its energy and where it leaves the planet.
The flow of energy
between these two levels is key to understand the effect of the GHE on the
hydrological cycle.
The simple conceptual model also provides a link
between the GHE and the
hydrological cycle and offers explanations for some issues that have been up for popular public debate, showing why the issue of» saturation» is not relevant and why a» hiatus» is not in violation with an increased greenhouse effect.
The increased overturning can explain a slowdown in the global warming, and the association
between these aspects can be interpreted as an entanglement
between the greenhouse effect and the
hydrological cycle, where reduced energy transfer associated with increased opacity is compensated by tropospheric overturning activity.