This is likely to result in
increased water vapour transport.
Not exact matches
Or
increased water content (so that energy is more efficiently
transported by ferrying
vapour up to condense, release the energy and rain out).
They combined simple energy balance considerations with a physical assumption for the way
water vapour is
transported, and separated the contributions of surface heating from solar radiation and from
increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to obtain the two sensitivities.
Based on chemical
transport model studies, the RF from the
increase in stratospheric
water vapour due to oxidation of CH4 is estimated to be +0.07 [± 0.05] W m — 2, with a low level of scientific understanding.
There is also an
increasing poleward
transport of
water vapour from lower latitudes.
Warmer temperatures can directly
increase evaporation rates, and also affect the
water vapour transport within soils themselves, further adding to the evaporative demand.
The subtropical regions (e.g. the Mediterranean, North Africa and Central America) experience a drying owing to
increased transport of
water vapour out of this area and an expansion of the subtropical high - pressure regions towards the poles [4].