Sentences with phrase «between specific humidity»

However, the strength of the correlation between specific humidity variations and the temperature variations at the same level appears to be strongly height dependent.

S2 in the SI Appendix) with the independently observed q L that was used in Fig. 4 to motivate the relation between specific humidity and precipitation (Eq.

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Specific humidity content of the air has increased, as expected as part of the conventional water vapor feedback, but in fact relative humidity also increased between 1950 and 1990, indicating a stronger water vapor feedback than given by the conventional assumption of fixed relative humidity.

However, the critical threshold R C is independent of ɛ, and thus the calculation depends only on relatively robust averaged values of precipitation, net radiation, average temperature difference between land and ocean, specific humidity over ocean, and the natural constants ρ, L, and C p.

Consistent with reanalysis data (Fig. 4) and theoretical considerations (36, 39), continental rainfall is assumed to be proportional to the mean specific humidity within the atmospheric column The effect of an offset between these quantities does not change the model behavior qualitatively (see SI Appendix).

The analysis is restricted to latitudes between 50S and 50N and to altitudes at which the zonal - average specific humidity is greater than 0.5 g / kg.

From a few cursory examinations of geographical differences between the models, much of the differences in monthly - mean specific humidity (and many other variables) between the reanalysis products occurs in the tropics.