Also,
a lot more water vapor is being transported northward by big swings in the jet steam.
Not exact matches
So a local spike in precipitation releases a
lot of heat — but as the heat increases, this negatively affects the
vapor - >
water transition (precipitation, or raindrop formation), since warm air holds
more water then cool air — and so the limit on precipitation vis - a-vis the radiative balance of the atmosphere appears.
Venus has a
lot more water in it's atmosphere than Mars, Mars has little atmosphere, since it's got little amount atmosphere and tiny amount of
water vapor, it is less dry than Venus.
You are probably also aware already that
water vapor is as much if not
more of a so called greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is and there is a
lot of evaporating ocean
water on the planet not to mention clouds and high tropical humidity because hot air provides added space in the atmosphere for
water vapor gas to become a major component of air.
Warm air can hold a
lot more moisture (
water vapor) than colder air.
Of course as every AGW proponent will tell you this increases the green house effect as
lots and
lots more blue balls will be trapped and split by the
water vapor (although as we said this will have zero impact on the oceans).
The intrusion of 5 - 6 percent (figure from Trenberth via one of Sinclair's «This is Not Cool»)
more water vapor and
more energy in the system is messing with a
lot of boundaries.
In recent years, the idea of pulling
water vapor from the air and condensing it into drinking
water is getting a whole
lot more attention, and not just in off - grid areas and in the developing world, but also right here in suburbia and urban areas as well.