Sentences with phrase «upper tropospheric water vapor»

Part Seven — Upper Tropospheric Models & Measurement — recent measurements from AIRS showing upper tropospheric water vapor increases with surface temperature

Expectation of small but positive CO2 - greenhouse warming is consistent with his claims of strong negative feedbacks by upper tropospheric water vapor or cirrus clouds which would lose sense without initial warming in the global tropics.

(This paper, by Shine & Sinha, appears to have been inspired by Lindzen's 1990 paper where he talked about the importance of upper tropospheric water vapor among other subjects).

Observations of increasing upper tropospheric water vapor refute this.

Despite the small amount of water vapor in the upper troposphere (above about 5 km) and stratosphere, recent research has shown that upper tropospheric water vapor is very important to the climate.