Articles | Volume 19, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12887-2019
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12887-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
17 Oct 2019
Research article |
| 17 Oct 2019
| 17 Oct 2019
Water vapour adjustments and responses differ between climate drivers
Øivind Hodnebrog
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Gunnar Myhre
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Bjørn H. Samset
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Kari Alterskjær
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Timothy Andrews
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Olivier Boucher
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Paris, France
CNRS/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Gregory Faluvegi
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York,
USA
Dagmar Fläschner
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany
Piers M. Forster
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Matthew Kasoar
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
College London, London, UK
Alf Kirkevåg
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Jean-Francois Lamarque
NCAR/UCAR, Boulder, USA
Dirk Olivié
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Thomas B. Richardson
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Dilshad Shawki
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Drew Shindell
Duke University, Durham, USA
Keith P. Shine
University of Reading, Reading, UK
Philip Stier
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Toshihiko Takemura
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Duncan Watson-Parris
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Data sets
PDRMIP A Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project-Protocol and Preliminary Results G.Myhre, P. M. Forster, B. H. Samset, O. Hodnebrog, J. Sillmann, S. G. Aalbergsjo, T. Andrews, O. Boucher, G. Faluvegi, D. Fläschner, T. Iversen, M. Kasoar, V. Kharin, A. Kirkevag, J. F. Lamarque, D. Olivie, T. B. Richardson, D. Shindell, K. P. Shine, C. W. Stjern, T. Takemura, A. Voulgarakis, and F. Zwiers https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-16-0019.1
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design K. E. Taylor, R. J. Stouffer, and G. A. Meehl https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00094.1
Short summary
Different greenhouse gases (e.g. CO2) and aerosols (e.g. black carbon) impact the Earth’s water cycle differently. Here we investigate how various gases and particles impact atmospheric water vapour and its lifetime, i.e., the average number of days that water vapour stays in the atmosphere after evaporation and before precipitation. We find that this lifetime could increase substantially by the end of this century, indicating that important changes in precipitation patterns are excepted.
Different greenhouse gases (e.g. CO2) and aerosols (e.g. black carbon) impact the Earth’s...
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