• DOI:10.1029/2008GL035333
Corpus ID: 16219995

Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003-2008

@article{Dessler2008WatervaporCF,
  title={Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003-2008},
  author={A. Dessler and Z. Zhang and P. Yang},
  journal={Geophysical Research Letters},
  year={2008},
  volume={35}
}

A. Dessler, Z. Zhang, P. Yang

Published 2008

Environmental Science

Geophysical Research Letters

[i] Between 2003 and 2008, the global-average surface temperature of the Earth varied by 0.6°C. We analyze here the response of tropospheric water vapor to these variations. Height-resolved measurements of specific humidity (q) and relative humidity (RH) are obtained from NASA's satellite-bome Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). Over most of the troposphere, q increased with increasing global-average surface temperature, although some regions showed the opposite response. RH increased in some… CONTINUE READING

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