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.
It remains a significant challenge to retrieve surface air temperature and
surface humidity from space, and existing data are not considered to be of the quality needed to generate CDRs.
Not exact matches
We use different computer forecast models that feed initial conditions — including temperatures,
humidity, wind speed and wind direction
from around the United States and around the world,
from the
surface all the way up to the jet stream — into different equations.
And a third found that climate - induced sea -
surface temperature anomalies over the northeast Pacific were driving storms (and moisture) away
from California, but the warming also caused increased
humidity — two competing factors that may produce no net effect.
Finally, they monitored weather conditions at the site, including the intensity of sunlight, the
humidity and temperature of the air in the gap behind the slab (a space as much as 12 centimeters wide), and the
humidity and air temperature 2 centimeters
from the outer
surface of the slab.
A compilation of
surface measurements of downward longwave radiation
from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature,
humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang 2009).
Any contact between artwork and glass can lead to long term damage stemming
from temperature and
humidity variations on the glass
surface.
A clear and more detailed explanation can be found in Section 2.1 of the Simmons et al 2010 JGR article «Low - frequency variations in
surface atmospheric
humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences
from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets» (doi: 10.1029 / 2009JD012442).
Due to climate differences, interior conditions which must be maintained to avoid the critical relative
humidity at a
surface vary
from region to region and time of year.
The key is to prevent relative
humidities adjacent
surfaces from rising above 70 percent.
Simmons, A. J., K. M. Willett, P. D. Jones, P. W. Thorne, and D. P. Dee, 2010: Low - frequency variations in
surface atmospheric
humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences
from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets.
Low - frequency variations in
surface atmospheric
humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences
from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets
Does anyone know why the only
surface humidity field
from the ERA - Interim dataset is 2m dew point and not the more commonly used fields of specific
humidity and / or relative
humidity (which are also available as pressure level fields)?
Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in
surface evaporation and loss of water
from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased
humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat
from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6
I would point to TSI, OHC, sea level,
humidity, temps, Sea Ice, nothing is good enough for either side except the highly adjusted
surface temps
from GISS and not even they fully support the models and appear to conflict with other measurements!!
Surface measurements of downward longwave radiation A compilation of surface measurements of downward longwave radiation from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature, humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang
Surface measurements of downward longwave radiation A compilation of
surface measurements of downward longwave radiation from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature, humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang
surface measurements of downward longwave radiation
from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature,
humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang 2009).
A compilation of
surface measurements of downward longwave radiation
from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of more longwave radiation returning to earth, attributed to increases in air temperature,
humidity and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Wang 2009).
From where I sit,
surface temperature is most correlated with
humidity and cloud cover.
Monthly anomalies with respect to 1981 - 2010 in the relative
humidity of
surface air averaged over all and European land areas,
from January 1979 to February 2018.
Monthly anomalies with respect to 1981 - 2010 in the relative
humidity of
surface air averaged over all and European land areas,
from January 1979 to March 2018.
Running four - month averages of anomalies over land areas for SW Europe with respect to 1981 - 2010 for precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air, the volumetric moisture content of the top 7 cm of soil and
surface air temperature, based on monthly values
from January 1979 to March 2018.
Monthly summaries of precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air and the volumetric moisture content (the percentage of water per unit volume) of the uppermost 7 cm of soil are available
from April 2017 onwards.
«Trends in U.S.
Surface Humidity, 1930 — 2010 -LSB-...] Increasing evidence
from observations and climate models indicates that anthropogenic activity is increasing atmospheric moisture (Boucher et al. 2004; Willett et al. 2007; Santer et al. 2007; Min et al. 2008).
Running four - month averages of anomalies over land areas for NE Europe with respect to 1981 - 2010 for precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air, the volumetric moisture content of the top 7 cm of soil and
surface air temperature, based on monthly values
from January 1979 to March 2018.
Running four - month averages of anomalies over land areas for SW Europe with respect to 1981 - 2010 for precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air, the volumetric moisture content of the top 7 cm of soil and
surface air temperature, based on monthly values
from January 1979 to February 2018.
Running four - month averages of anomalies over land areas for NW Europe with respect to 1981 - 2010 for precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air, the volumetric moisture content of the top 7 cm of soil and
surface air temperature, based on monthly values
from January 1979 to February 2018.
Below ERA - Interim precipitation and relative
humidity of
surface air are compared with a number of datasets, including to precipitation
from an earlier version of E-OBS.
Elsewhere, the background forecast model plays a stronger role, enabling values of
surface relative
humidity to be derived less directly
from other types of assimilated observation.
Over land, values of the relative
humidity of
surface air are determined quite directly
from observational records for regions where plentiful observations of
surface air
humidity were made.
A scientific evaluation of precipitation and
surface relative
humidity from ERA - Interim including comparisons with several other datasets was published for the first 20 years of completed analyses, covering 1989 to 2008.
The dry and wet indicators
from ERA - Interim are precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air and the volumetric moisture content (the percentage of water per unit volume) of the uppermost 7 cm of soil.
The main improvements with respect to V2 version flux products (Bentamy et al, 2008) are related to the improvements of the specific air
humidity estimation
from radiometer measurements, to the assessment of the
surface winds retrieved
from QuikSCAT scatterometers, and to the use of the new objective method allowing the calculation of flux analyses over the global oceans.
The required bulk variables such as
surface wind speed (W10) and specific air
humidity (Qa10) at 10m height are both estimated
from remotely sensed measurements.
Another paper, [7] which they also cite, instead derives an equilibrium air — sea
surface warming differential
from a theoretical model based on an assumed relative
humidity height profile, with thermal inertia playing no role.
If you remove the air saturated with water vapor
from above the
surface of the water and continuously replace it with air at the same temperature but lower
humidity, the water will cool.
i know why the authors of the papers were using climate models to simulate the removal of effect
from surface temperatures and
humidity and that the «theory» says you must do that.
These studies use either three - dimensional observed fields of for example, clouds, relative
humidity and
surface reflectance (e.g., Kiehl and Briegleb, 1993; Myhre et al., 1998c), or GCM generated fields (e.g., Boucher and Anderson, 1995; Haywood et al., 1997a) together with the prescribed aerosol distributions
from CTMs and detailed radiative transfer codes in calculating the radiative forcing.
Irannejad et al. (2003) developed a statistical methodology to fit monthly fluxes
from a large number of climate models to a simple linear statistical model, depending on factors such as monthly net radiation and
surface relative
humidity.
Relative
humidity should be maintained at 60 % or lower at 75 °F (23.8 °C) within the conditioned spaces during cooling periods (the key is to prevent 70 % relative
humidities from occurring adjacent to
surfaces in order to control mold, mildew, and other biological growth).
That is what happens when oceans naturally increase their emission of energy and the response of the air is exactly the same whether the warmer ocean
surface is a result of enhanced energy emission
from the ocean or enhanced energy in the air
from another cause such as more
humidity or more CO2.
When
surface temperature and
humidity reach a threshold, clouds form which reduce incoming energy
from the sun reaching the
surface, particularly in Earth's vast oceanic tropics (where a disproportionate portion of it enters the climate system), while daily afternoon thunderstorms remove enough heat
from surface areas to bring
surface temperatures back into line.
The water vapor feedback mainly results
from changes in
humidity in the tropical uppertroposphere (2), where temperatures are far below that of the
surface and the vapor is above most of the cloud cover.
On the other hand, the atmosphere next to the Earth's
surface comprises an IR emitter which has Absolute Emissivity between c. 0.6 and 0.7 depending on
humidity and temperature (assumed to be the same as the
surface) The «black body» amplitude, self - absorbed GHG bands shut off the corresponding wavelength emission
from the
surface, making its Operational Emissivity c. 0.4 to 0.3.
Philipona et al. (2004) measured the changes and trends of radiative fluxes at the
surface and their relation to greenhouse gas increases and temperature and humidity changes measured from 1995 to 2002 at eight stations of the Alpine Surface Radiation Budget (ASRB) n
surface and their relation to greenhouse gas increases and temperature and
humidity changes measured
from 1995 to 2002 at eight stations of the Alpine
Surface Radiation Budget (ASRB) n
Surface Radiation Budget (ASRB) network.
It has been the object of my previous investigations to find this relation; hence, if the temperature and
humidity at the earth's
surface are known, together with the temperature gradient and the
humidity gradient, I can
from these data calculate the radiation at different altitudes.
In the lower atmosphere, the available data points to increasing water vapor content, but because of large variations in local
humidity from day to night,
from day to day, and
from season to season, no - one currently knows exactly how much more water vapor is going into the air (IPCC Working Group 1 Assessment Report 4, Chapter 3, «Observations:
Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change», page 273).
But the heart of his paper is the construction
from published metereological data of a table of mean temperature and relative and absolute
humidity for the
surface of the earth between 60 degrees south and 70 degrees north.
The NCEP / NCAR Reanalysis is the database the researchers drew upon for information about the effects of troposphere
humidity, wind shear and zonal stretching deformation on hurricane intensity; sea
surface temperature data came
from a different database.
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Humidity in the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere stretching
from the
surface of the Earth to about 6 miles up
Running four - month averages of anomalies over land areas for NE Europe with respect to 1981 - 2010 for precipitation, the relative
humidity of
surface air, the volumetric moisture content of the top 7 cm of soil and
surface air temperature, based on monthly values
from January 1979 to April 2018.