Sentences with phrase «surface humidity»
Surface humidity refers to the amount of moisture or water vapor present in the air that is close to the Earth's surface. It measures how sticky or damp the air feels on our skin. Full definition
It is hard for me to imagine this large a reduction in tropical mean near surface humidity with warming — but one only has to get this reduction in the convecting regions.
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One study, published in today's edition of the journal Nature, found that the overall increase in worldwide surface humidity from 1973 - 99 was 2.2 %, which is due «primarily to human - caused global warming,» according to study co-author Nathan Gillett of the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.
Willett, K. M., P. D. Jones, N. P. Gillett, and P. W. Thorne, 2008: Recent changes in surface humidity: Development of the HadCRUH dataset.
In the central United States, for example, observational data indicate that rainfall increased, surface air temperature decreased, and surface humidity increased during the summer over the course of the 20th century concurrently with increases in both agricultural production and global GHG emissions.
Irrigation also leads to boreal winter (December - February) warming over parts of North America and Asia in the latter part of the century, due to enhanced downward longwave fluxes from increased near surface humidity.
This is buried in the noise of wind induced fluctuations in evaporation and changes in LWIR flux caused by variations in aerosols, clouds and near surface humidity.