The main message of the figure below is that the precipitation and
evaporation increase at a much lower rate than Clausius — Clapeyron would predict, about 2 - 4 % per degree K.
Not exact matches
Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look
at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and
increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.
Less than one percent of the world's water is liquid fresh water, and scientific studies suggest that a majority of U.S. and global fresh water is now
at risk because of
increasing consumption,
evaporation and pollution.
That's because tropical forests are so good
at cooling their surroundings by
increasing the
evaporation of water.
They based their results on a mechanism called «evaporative buffering,» in which excess warming
at the equator causes
increased evaporation, cooling the planet in the same way that perspiration cools a marathon runner.
Simultaneously, as the average liquid droplet becomes smaller through
evaporation, the vapor's density
increases, so more vapor molecules merge
at a faster rate to become microscopic liquid droplets, and more water molecules are ionized.
Global models for the 21st century find an
increased variability of precipitation minus
evaporation [P - E] in most of the world, especially near the equator and
at high latitudes [125].
Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature
at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by
evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of
evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source
increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
One other factor here is
increased evaporation at the equator which has
increased the salanity of tropical waters along with
increased percipitation
at the poles seems to be making the thermohaline system move faster which in turn carries move heat to the poles and hence
increases polar ice melting and hence possibly a greater chance of slowdown of the thermohaline system.
I've trying to find what percentage of additional
evaporation there is now over the world's oceans
at the current
increased temp of 0.7 C over the mean.
Further, let's agree that this will on average cause more precipitation due to
increased evaporation at these higher temperatures (the best data I have seen say that the precipitation trend over the continental US — where we have the best long term records — is up 5 - 10 % over the last century).
However, with me
at least, a bit part of the deal is the
increased acidity reducing fish harvests, water shortages, droughts severely reducing crops (sure — more rain, but more over the ocean, less on land — and with greater
evaporation before the water trickles to a dry stream bed),
increased heat reducing rice production and other heat sensative crops, the heat waves, etc..
I haven't read the papers and don't know what is happening with salinity in the rest of the Atlantic, but looking
at your map it occurred to me that if there was
increased freshwater in the Northern Ocean due to ice melting and
increase salinity in the tropical Atlantic due to
increased evaporation, couldn't a mixing effect
at the southern edge of the Northern ocean as tropical water is circulated north show similar results?
An
increase in surface temp will
increase water vapor pressure
at the surface: that will likely
increase the rate of
evaporation at the surface, which may or may not
increase cloud cover.
Ian, looking
at the projections it certainly appears that
increased evaporation plays a bigger role than decreases in rainfall, but of course the two interact, and the reduction in streamflow is larger again (commonly by a factor of three) than the reduction in rainfall net of
evaporation.
Incorporating
evaporation into the model shifts the distribution toward lower thresholds (Fig. 6, red), while
at the same time
increasing the precipitation threshold P c. Standard bootstrapping (see SI Appendix) reveals that the estimates in Fig. 6 are already relative robust distributions, in view of the simplicity of the model approach.
I had stated that globally the rate of
evaporation and precipitation
increase at the same rate as the humidity of saturation, that is, by 8 % per 1 °C based on a roughly constant residence time, but this is false:
However, there is also the expansion of the Hadley Cells where water vapor from tropical ocean
evaporation rises, water in the form of rain falls out as the air cools with
increased altitude, then dry air descends
at poleward edge of the cells in the dry subtropics.
David Springer December 10, 2012
at 7:51 am said:»
Increased evaporation leaves the surface cooler not warmer than it was before.
Part way there, but no quantitation yet: of the 3.77 W / m ^ 2 radiated back dowwnard, most goes to
increased rate of
evaporation of the water
at the surface, and much less goes to
increased mean temp
increase at the surface; hence
increased rate of non-radiative transfer of heat from surface to upper atmosphere, slight
increase in rainfall as hydrological cycle is faster, and slight
increase in cloud cover.
The steady
increase in global temperatures, including average temperatures in Australia, means that even when rainfall is
at or near the historical average, conditions are drier than before because
evaporation rates are higher.
At the local scale, high temperatures may lead to
increased evaporation and decreased soil moisture, resulting in an «agricultural drought».
He had already been warned on this thread that when I had earlier answered a legitimate question from a commenter far more polite and sensible than he, I had replied with a straightforward account of how Professor Lindzen, in a talk that he had given under my chairmanship
at the Houses of Parliament, had calculated that if the
increase in
evaporation from the Earth's surface with warming was thrice that which the models predicted then climate sensitivity was one - third of that which the models predicted.
There,
evaporation at the surface
increased saltiness.
In fact,
at higher temperatures, the gain drops below 1 as the
increase in latent heat removed from
evaporation exceeds the
increase in solar power arriving from the Sun.
So, overall there is more natural warming caused by
increasing maxima causing more
evaporation and more condensation,
at the same time.
As a checksum, we can plug the modeled 3 % - per - Kelvin (2) and 1 % - per - Kelvin (3)
increases in
evaporation with warming, as well as the observed 5.7 %
increase (4), into (1) to determine the warming ∆ T (2x)
at a doubling of CO2 concentration:
Global models for the 21st century find an
increased variability of precipitation minus
evaporation [P - E] in most of the world, especially near the equator and
at high latitudes [125].
Increased evaporation can dry out some regions while,
at the same time, result in more rain falling in other areas due to the excess moisture in the atmosphere.
Hence less than 0.8 W / m ² radiated from the surface do no longer reach the cosmos [26] and are carried away by the
evaporation associated with a minuscule temperature
increase of the surface: for
evaporation at +6 W / m ² / °C, the required temperature
increase would be 0.13 °C spread over the 200 years it would take to double the CO2 content of the air
at the rate of +2 ppm / year.
At the surface,
increased pressure from injecting water vapour into a parcel of air via
evaporation causes the parcel to rise so that surface pressure below it falls.
«With global temperatures warmer now than they were
at the beginning of the last century, that means our temperatures are warmer too, which
increases the rate of
evaporation and
increases the demands on water,
increases the stress on the water supply, and also leaves us more susceptible to breaking the high - temperature record, which we've been doing lately,» Nielsen - Gammon said.
The resulting dry - season
evaporation does not wholly overcome the seasonal influence of lower air pressure
at sea, but it keeps the difference small and
increases the likelihood of ocean - interior transport and terrestrial rain.
What makes air rise from the surface when
evaporation occurs is
increased pressure horizontally which
increases buoyancy of the less dense parcel by forcing it upward vertically for a reduction of pressure
at the base of the column.
i)
At the surface
increased horizontal pressure from
evaporation induced expansion accompanies uplift for decreased pressure vertically.
Stephen said, «What makes air rise from the surface when
evaporation occurs is
increased pressure horizontally which
increases buoyancy of the less dense parcel by forcing it upward vertically for a reduction of pressure
at the base of the column.»
If you think about it and if they «are» right about both the causes and the effects (melting ice caps, raising sea levels — e.g.
increased ocean surface worldwide,
increased surface temperatures on land and
at sea and erratic excesses in weather) then the results may well be an eventual drastic swing the other day as we see
increases in reflection,
evaporation and conversion of «greenhouse» gases back into inert forms!
ii)
At the same time it
increases evaporation and therefore net cooling in SST (int) which
increases the flow through the lower layers again thus cancelling i) for a zero net effect on the rate of energy flow from the subskin.
It can also strengthen the Asian summer monsoon circulation and cause a local
increase in precipitation, despite the global reduction of
evaporation that compensates aerosol radiative heating
at the surface (Miller et al., 2004b).
Basically I see this as the result of convection (from the DSR warmed water below) which
increases the temperature up to the last mm or so and then the cooling above that is as a result of energy loss
at the surface and additional energy loss from
evaporation which pushes the temperature down.
The skin layer does get warmer with more DLR but
at the same time the interacting layer above it gets cooler because of the deficit created by
increased evaporation taking place in that interacting layer.
At daytime the increase of the inflow of radiation energy into the liquid phase from outside intensifies the evaporation while at night time the reduction of the inflow of energy to the liquid phase reduces the energy amount that compensate the energy losses due to evaporatio
At daytime the
increase of the inflow of radiation energy into the liquid phase from outside intensifies the
evaporation while
at night time the reduction of the inflow of energy to the liquid phase reduces the energy amount that compensate the energy losses due to evaporatio
at night time the reduction of the inflow of energy to the liquid phase reduces the energy amount that compensate the energy losses due to
evaporation.
A correspondent of mine adheres to hypothesis A (I think) and disregarded out of hand the evidence I presented that
increased DLR results in a measureable, observed
increase in skin temperature; this in itself disproves the idea that all DLR is immediately used up in
evaporation, which would result in no observed warming
at all.
It appears that forests in the Amazon,
at least in the central and eastern regions, may be rendered vulnerable to collapse either by
increases of Potential
Evaporation (PE, by
increasing temperature or sunlight) or decreasing precipitation (Pc).
When DLR from a clear sky (either
at night or by day) is present it does not significantly decrease upward radiation in the way that a cloud does and it
increases evaporation by adding energy to the interacting layer (the top 10 microns) and then allowing maximum convection rather than suppressing it in the way that a cloud does.
Correction:
At # 6 I said «A rise in temperature of 0.007 oC in say 1995 was enough to
increase evaporation and thereby [H2O] by more than either natural or DIRECT human variations in solar radiation?»
The IPCC summary is deeply flawed as a scientific document and as I have explained in other recent articles it appears impossible for
increased levels of atmospheric CO2
at the puny levels caused by mankind to affect the characteristics of the atmosphere enough to significantly enhance the greenhouse effect and even if it could do so then any such effect would be quickly neutralised by the primary solar / oceanic driver and the oceans acting in conjunction with
evaporation, condensation and atmospheric convection (which includes clouds and rain).
The rate of
evaporation always
increases in proportion to the supply of extra energy to water molecules
at the surface or to molecules of air that are in contact with the water surface so that no warming of the ocean by the air can occur.
An
increased rate of
evaporation and convection will move the additional energy
at the surface to a higher layer in the atmosphere and because
evaporation carries energy in what's called «latent heat» there will be no measurable rise in temperature near the surface as thermometers measure what's called «sensible heat».
However, with continued warming and eventual equilibrium,
evaporation,
at a now substantially
increased rate, would be balanced by precipitation.