A vertical transport window of water vapor in the troposphere over the Tibetan Plateau with implications for global climate change

Xu, Xiangde; Sun, Chan; Chen, Deliang; Zhao, Tianliang; Xu, Jianjun; Zhang, Shengjun; Li, Juan; Chen, Bin; Zhao, Yang; Xu, Hongxiong; Dong, Lili; Sun, Xiaoyun; Zhu, Yan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1149-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1149-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1149-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

Research article

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24 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 24 Jan 2022

A vertical transport window of water vapor in the troposphere over the Tibetan Plateau with implications for global climate change

Xiangde Xu, Chan Sun, Deliang Chen, Tianliang Zhao, Jianjun Xu, Shengjun Zhang, Juan Li, Bin Chen, Yang Zhao, Hongxiong Xu, Lili Dong, Xiaoyun Sun, and Yan Zhu

Data sets

The daily and monthly ERA Interim reanalysis data of meteorology European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasts(ECMWF) https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-moda/levtype=pl/

AIRS/Aqua L3 Daily Standard Physical Retrieval Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center 261 (GES DISC) https://doi.org/10.5067/Aqua/AIRS/DATA303

Low Cloud Amount C. Sun https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5121157

Short summary

A vertical transport window of tropospheric vapor exists on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The TP's thermal forcing drives the vertical transport window of vapor in the troposphere. The effects of the TP's vertical transport window of vapor are of importance in global climate change.