Sentences with phrase «water vapor concentrations»

An observed consequence of higher water vapor concentrations is the increased frequency of intense precipitation events, mainly over land areas.

There is no convincing data to support the idea that CO2 level regulates atmospheric water vapor concentration.

The lapse rate effect is discussed in every textbook on the subject, the small additional effect due to changing water vapor concentration not.

Until there is, there is only the hypothesis that CO2 regulates water vapor concentration.

For instance, as temperature rises, the maximum sustainable water vapor concentration increases by about 7 % per degree Celsius.

One consequence of higher water vapor concentrations is more frequent, intense precipitation.

Furthermore, agreement is widespread that these changes may profoundly affect atmospheric water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and runoff and stream flow patterns.

Current state - of - the - art climate models predict that increasing water vapor concentrations in warmer air will amplify the greenhouse effect created by anthropogenic greenhouse gases while maintaining nearly constant relative humidity.

Stratospheric water vapor concentrations decreased by about 10 % after the year 2000.

[May 8, 3:30 p.m. Updated The federal Climate Attribution Rapid Response Team has weighed in and found no evidence of a trend in conditions that tend to be required to spawn tornadoes — an unstable atmosphere, rising water vapor concentrations or wind shear — in the South and over the Gulf of Mexico.

Specifically, as global temperatures have steadily increased at their fastest rates in millions of years, it's directly affected things like water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and stream flow patterns, which are all related to the water cycle.

«What our study shows is that observed water vapor concentrations are high enough and temperatures are low enough over the U.S. in summertime to initiate the chemistry that is known to lead to ozone losses,» said Harvard atmospheric scientist David Wilmouth, one of the paper's co-authors, in an email.

water vapor concentration varies significantly vertically through the atmosphere and geographically (due to local vaporization, condensation, convection and lateral winds)

Should the Hadley cell, monsoons, and Walker circulation be expected to increase in strength due to greater water vapor concentrations (except where aerosol emissions throw a wrench into it)?

Indirectly, human activity that increases global temperatures will increase water vapor concentrations, a process known as water vapor feedback.

The study, described in an article today in The Times, finds that poorly understood variations in water vapor concentrations in the stratosphere were probably responsible for a substantial wedge of the powerful warming trend in the 1990s and a substantial portion of «the flattening of global average temperatures since 2000 ″ (to anyone who hates talk of plateaus and the like, those are the authors» words, not mine).

«As you start varying the hydrological cycle of Indonesia, you almost have to vary the Earth's water vapor concentration.

So the fact that we have this very strong drying in the tropics during glaciation would argue for a strong feedback of water vapor concentration to the global climate during glacial - interglacial cycles.»

He notes that both turbulence and water vapor concentrations have increased in the upper boundary of the troposphere due to climate change.

Misra adds that a previous study has already noted that warmer temperatures in cities result in higher water vapor concentration.

A reduction in the variance of tire pressure due to temperature change since there is no water vapor concentration

The collapse of the Sc clouds occurs because, as the free - tropospheric longwave opacity increases with increased CO2 and water vapor concentrations, the turbulent mixing that is driven by cloud - top radiative cooling weakens, and therefore is unable to maintain the Sc layer.

Misra adds that a previous study has already noted that warmer temperatures in cities result in higher water vapor concentration.

There are many ways to define the atmospheric water vapor concentration.

(Admittedly, a given FRACTIONAL change in water vapor concentration is more potent than the same FRACTIONAL change in CO2 concentration but this difference is not large enough to offset the larger difference due to their relative concentrations in the atmosphere.)

[19] Water vapor concentrations fluctuate regionally, but human activity does not directly affect water vapor concentrations except at local scales, such as near irrigated fields.