Sentences with phrase «by upper tropospheric water vapor»

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The iris hypothesis and the tropical upper tropospheric water vapor and cirrus cloud feedbacks, while arguably still open to debate, are not by any stretch of the imagination a major driver in global climate feedback.

«The wavelengths of water vapor continuum absorption are most important in determining surface emission, while upper tropospheric emission is determined by the wavelengths of rotation and vibrational bands (Mitchell et al. 1987; Inamdar et al. 2004).»

(This paper, by Shine & Sinha, appears to have been inspired by Lindzen's 1990 paper where he talked about the importance of upper tropospheric water vapor among other subjects).

The high level of interest in scientific circles in upper tropospheric (and stratospheric) water vapor is because it is easy to demonstrate by theory and measurement that small amounts of water vapor at high altitudes have disproportionate effects.