Sentences with phrase «of atmospheric water vapor»

Indonesian waters are major agents for global levels of atmospheric water vapor.

Precipitable water - The total amount of atmospheric water vapor in a vertical column of unit cross-sectional area.

It is the largest source of atmospheric water vapor as well as receiving the greatest amount of rainfall on Earth.

Sensitivity of atmospheric water vapor content to the parameters of this new representation of convection is also being evaluated through use of the so - called adjoint of the scheme.»

3 Further complicating the response of the different atmospheric levels to increases in greenhouse gases are other processes such as those associated with changes in the concentration and distribution of atmospheric water vapor and clouds.

Aires, F., C. Prigent, W.B. Rossow, and M. Rothstein, 2001: A new neural network approach including first - guess for retrieval of atmospheric water vapor, cloud liquid water path, surface temperature and emissivities over land from satellite microwave observations.

Improvements in the methods of testing the validity of climate models, particularly their simulation of atmospheric water vapor and related aspects of the hydrological cycle.

Non-condensing greenhouse gases, which account for 25 % of the total terrestrial greenhouse effect, thus serve to provide the stable temperature structure that sustains the current levels of atmospheric water vapor and clouds via feedback processes that account for the remaining 75 % of the greenhouse effect.

This provides a stable reference temperature structure for the fast feedback processes to operate and maintain the amounts of atmospheric water vapor and clouds at their quasi-equilibrium concentrations.

The effect of the increased volume of atmospheric water vapor is not knowable because until recently there were only very crude estimates of atmospheric water vapor levels.

By several meteorological measures, the airmass associated with this storm is pretty extraordinary: the amount of atmospheric water vapor (precipitable water) expected to be present near San Francisco on Saturday morning may be close to the all - time record value for any time of year.

They describe «water vapor and clouds as the fast feedback processes in the climate system,» whereas the «noncondensing greenhouse gases... provide the stable temperature structure that sustains the current levels of atmospheric water vapor and clouds» (p. 356); in terms of direct effects on radiation, they estimate water vapor accounts for about half the greenhouse effect, clouds for about a quarter, CO2 for 20 % and other greenhouse gases 5 %.