Sentences with phrase «decreasing specific humidity»

The decreasing specific humidity (especially at 300 and 400 mb levels) almost totally offsets the GHE of increasing CO2 content.

Not exact matches

The long - term NOAA record of tropospheric humidity from radiosondes and satellites shows that water vapor content (specific humidity) has decreased with warming.

The 2009 State of the Climate Report of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us that climate change is real because of rising surface air temperatures since 1880 over land and the ocean, ocean acidification, sea level rise, glaciers melting, rising specific humidity, ocean heat content increasing, sea ice retreating, glaciers diminishing, Northern Hemisphere snow cover decreasing, and so many other lines of evidence.

Most of the decrease is caused by a decrease in the specific humidity in the upper troposphere but hey... why mention that when you can scare the beeJesus out of people with pseudo-science.

-LSB-...] There have been no long - term changes in dewpoint temperatures or specific humidity but rather there has been a decreasing (1947 — 79) and then an increasing (1980 — 2010) trend in both variables.»

Specific humidity has increased at lower altitudes, but has decreased at high altitudes.

WebHubTelescope Bottom line is that the SURFACE specific humidity increased while the relative humidity decreased.

The latter effect acts to reduce CO2 sensitivity by increasing the aerosol - sensitive SW tau, increasing both cloud density and cover, decreasing upper tropospheric specific humidity and INCREASING SW albedo and will increasingly do so as the atmospheric level of CO2 rises!

The latter effect acts to reduce CO2 sensitivity by increasing the aerosol - sensitive SW tau, increasing both cloud density and cover, decreasing upper tropospheric specific humidity and SW albedo and will increasingly do so as the atmospheric level of CO2 rises!

The simplest theoretical grounds include a cloud cover increase with increasing specific humidity and a cloud cover decrease with increasing solar activity.

In this instance (NCEP Reanalysis), the dramatic decrease in tropical specific humidity (their Figure 3 center) appears to extend into and dominate the midlatitude changes, as defined by the authors.

If the relative humidity is held fixed as the air is warmed, the implied increase in specific humidity of the air will further increase the downward infrared flux, though it might somewhat decrease the latent flux.

You get the THS only if the lapse rate decreases as temperature goes up because the moist lapse rate gets lower as specific humidity goes up (higher energy content / kg).

We found that there is an increasing trend in heat waves and positive specific - humidity anomalies and a decreasing trend in cold waves and negative specific - humidity anomalies.