Sentences with phrase «stratospheric water vapor declined»

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The use of water vapor is also misleading — the findings of Solomon did not include any claim that stratospheric water vapor was unrelated to the concentration of other GHGs, only that it had declined recently (perhaps) for unknown reasons.

Based on these results, declining stratospheric water vapor would account for only about one - fourth of the slow - down in warming.

That said, the models that Soloman and her co-authors use still show significant warming over the past decade even when stratospheric water vapor is declining (they give a rise of 0.10 C instead of 0.14 C, a 0.04 degree C difference).

The figure below, from a paper in Science by Susan Soloman and her colleagues, shows a notable decline in stratospheric (high - atmosphere) water vapor after the year 2000.