Not exact matches
«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.
To reduce the variability and bias introduced into the QME AERI / LBLRTM radiance residuals, the moisture profiles
from each radiosonde are scaled such that its total
precipitable water vapor matches that retrieved
from the microwave radiometer (MWR), and these scaled profiles are used to drive the model.
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.
It is recommended that this dataset should be used for analyses of
precipitable water and for model validation over the oceans
from 1988 onwards.
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.
Your reply is frankly (and disappointingly) inadequate, because all the regressions I report show that by far the main effect on January temperatures in New York
from 1960 to 2006 was
precipitable water (aka H2O).