upper tropospheric humidity changes under constant relative humidity
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Abstract
Theoretical derivations are given on the change of
upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) in a warming climate. The considered
view is that the atmosphere, which is getting moister with increasing
temperatures, will retain a constant relative humidity. In the
present study, we show that the upper tropospheric humidity,
a weighted mean over a relative humidity profile, will change in
spite of constant relative humidity. The simple reason for this is
that the weighting function that defines UTH changes in a moister
atmosphere. Through analytical calculations using observations and
through radiative transfer calculations, we demonstrate that two
quantities that define the weighting function of UTH can change: the
water vapour scale height and the peak emission altitude. Applying
these changes to real profiles of relative humidity shows that
absolute UTH changes typically do not exceed 1 %. If larger
changes would be observed they would be an indication of
climatological changes of relative humidity. As such, an increase in
UTH between 1980 and 2009 in the northern midlatitudes, as shown by
earlier studies using the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) data, may be an indication of an increase
in relative humidity as well.
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| Authors | ;K. Gierens;K. Eleftheratos |
| Journal | Journal of agricultural and food chemistry |
| Year | 2016 |
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10.5194/acp-16-4159-2016
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