First, warm air holds more water
vapor than cold air — and the rising air temperatures since the 1970s have caused the atmospheric water vapor content to rise as well.
Warm air holds more water
vapor than cold air does, so the air is more humid than a few years ago.
Warmer air holds more water
vapor than colder air, so the amount of water vapor in the lower atmosphere increases as it is warmed by the greenhouse effect.
Warmer air holds more water
vapor than colder air, so global warming will make the lower atmosphere wetter.
Not exact matches
While the ECS factors in such «fast» feedback effects as changes in water
vapor — water itself is a greenhouse gas, and saturates warm
air better
than cold — they argued that slow feedbacks, such as changes in ice sheets and vegetation, should also be considered.
The
air at the top of the troposphere is
colder than the
air at the ground because of a. water
vapor b. expansion of gas c. light energy d. ozone
This is why gardeners will put water
vapor in the
air and water liquid on the ground around their garden on a clear
cold night — it protects the local area from cooling as fast because water
vapor and liquid both 1) cool much slower
than dry
air due to their massive heat capacity, and 2) cool even slower because they release their massive latent heat, which means that heat energy is released from them without requiring a drop in temperature — once they're in the latent heat release phase, they just keep shedding energy without dropping in temperature any further.
Warm
air can hold a lot more moisture (water
vapor)
than colder air.
(A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm
air holds more water
vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.)
[99] The atmospheric concentration of
vapor is highly variable and depends largely on temperature, from less
than 0.01 % in extremely
cold regions up to 3 % by mass in saturated
air at about 32 °C.