Sentences with phrase «of precipitable water»

It is recommended that this dataset should be used for analyses of precipitable water and for model validation over the oceans from 1988 onwards.

As expected, amounts of precipitable water are greatest over warm, equatorial regions and decrease more or less continuously with increasing latitude down to very low values over the cold, polar regions.

The mean distribution of precipitable water, or total atmospheric water vapor above the Earth's surface, is shown in Figure 2.

It would be straightforward to test this with modeling by calculating the pressure change over a region due to the hydrostatic pressure changes due to the removal of precipitable water by precipitation.

Not exact matches

The definitive precipitable water vapour analyses are discussed in Chapter 3 of AR4, and I'd start with those publications and authors to see what the differences are with the ISCCP product.

«This parameter represents the total precipitable centimeters of water vapor in the atmosphere and is determined from analysis of satellite infrared sounder data (NOAA operational analysis).

This area of vorticity served as a focusing mechanism for moisture lift and advection (movement) from the Gulf of Mexico consistently replenishing the available precipitable water.

But all were extreme events, both in terms of precipitation rates and of cost, of the sort which we expect to become much more frequent given both theory and observed metrics such as precipitable water in the atmosphere.

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.

Here is a near real time super computer visualization of surface winds with a total precipitable water overlay.

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

Note 1 — The total amount of water vapor, TPW (total precipitable water), is obviously something we want to know, but we don't have enough information if we don't know the distribution of this water vapor with height.

These two channels are sensitive to the presence of liquid water and precipitable water vapor.

Moreover, the amount of water in the atmosphere, also known as the precipitable water value, or PWAT, will be 1.50 to 1.75 inches.

Just to let you know how stupid the global warming activists are, I've been to the south pole 3 times and even there, where the water vapor is under 0.2 mm precipitable, it's still the H2O that is the main concern in our field and nobody even talks about CO2 because CO2 doesn't absorb or radiate in the portion of the spectrum corresponding with earth's surface temps of 220 to 320 K. Not at all.

The storm is passing over waters of 29 °C — approximately 0.5 °C above average in temperature — and is an unusually wet storm, with amounts of water vapor near the very high end of what is observed in tropical cyclones (precipitable water values up to 3.0 inches.)

Surface low pressure map along with precipitable water normalized anomalies for Jan. 23, 2016, showing a corridor of moist air flowing around the East Coast blizzard.

A recent study of water vapor trends above North America based on radiosonde measurements from 1973 to 1993 finds increases in precipitable water over all regions except northern and eastern Canada, where it fell slightly.

Implement a new total precipitable water (TPW) predictor in the SHIPS model to help account for the impact of dry layers (e.g. the SAL and mid-latitude dry air intrusions) on tropical cyclone intensity.

Strangely, as Solomon et al. clearly are not aware that the sun does not shine at night, whereas the opacity (OPQ, a term unknown to the IPCC) of the sky becomes relevant, if we replace AVGLO by OPQ, then we have these results, that OPQ has a larger role than [CO2], but without being statistically significant, whereas the main player as before is the ESRL's «precipitable water», i.e., atmospheric water vapor, denoted here as [H2O], hugely statistically significant (t stat = 3.39, well above the benchmark 2.0).

By accounting for these aspects, he subtracted the median of the measurements (precipitable water content, etc) for the corresponding calendar month for all the data, and excluded the years with volcanic activity.

Feulner also asserts that there may be two simultaneous effects: (i) that the precipitable water content, pyranometry and the pyrheliometry measurements exhibit pronounced regular seasonal variations, and (ii) the seasonal distribution of sunspot numbers can give the impression of a change with solar activity.

Alexandrov, M.D., B. Cairns, A.A. Lacis, and B.E. Carlson, 2006: Remote sensing of absorbing aerosols and precipitable water vapor using MFRSR measurements.

It's important to understand that the computation of total optical thickness depends on total precipitable water — that is water vapor through the entire atmosphere.

We also include an estimate from the NCAR LE of the impact of decadal variability in precipitable water in the atmosphere, which can impact GMSL.

dRH -0.038792717 0.011076382 -3.502291475 0.001197255 dAVWS -0.018380323 0.085040424 -0.216136302 0.83003757 And as before the main positive and significant determinant of changes in annual mean temperature is «H2O», precipitable water (on which [CO2] has no discernible effect).