Stratospheric water vapor feedback. Academic Article

abstract

• We show here that stratospheric water vapor variations play an important role in the evolution of our climate. This comes from analysis of observations showing that stratospheric water vapor increases with tropospheric temperature, implying the existence of a stratospheric water vapor feedback. We estimate the strength of this feedback in a chemistry-climate model to be +0.3 W/(m(2)K), which would be a significant contributor to the overall climate sensitivity. One-third of this feedback comes from increases in water vapor entering the stratosphere through the tropical tropopause layer, with the rest coming from increases in water vapor entering through the extratropical tropopause.

authors

• Dessler, Andrew

published proceedings

• Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

altmetric score

• 92.738

author list (cited authors)

• Dessler, A. E., Schoeberl, M. R., Wang, T., Davis, S. M., & Rosenlof, K. H.

citation count

• 225

complete list of authors

• Dessler, AE||Schoeberl, MR||Wang, T||Davis, SM||Rosenlof, KH

publication date

• November 2013

publisher

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

keywords

• Atmosphere
• Climate Change
• Climatic Processes
• Feedback
• Greenhouse Effect
• Lowermost Stratosphere
• Models, Theoretical
• Overworld
• Steam

PubMed Central ID

• 24082126

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1073/pnas.1310344110

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/184205

start page

• 18087

end page

• 18091

volume

• 110

issue

• 45

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1073%2Fpnas.1310344110

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action