WATER VAPOR FEEDBACK AND GLOBAL WARMING 1

By I. Held, Brian J. Soden. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Tapio Schneider
2. P. O’Gorman
3. M. Byrne
4. Brian J. Soden
5. K. M. Shell
6. A. Broccoli
7. M. Yoshimori
8. I. Held

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Tapio Schneider
2. P. O’Gorman
3. M. Byrne
4. A. Broccoli
5. Brian J. Soden
6. K. M. Shell
7. M. Yoshimori
8. I. Held

Citations in the corpus

• Equilibrium Response of an Atmosphere–Mixed Layer Ocean Model to Different Radiative Forcing Agents: Global and Zonal Mean Response (2008, result): “The magnitude of the precipitable water change is reasonably close to the value predicted by the Clausius–Clapeyron equation under the fixed relative humidity assumption (cf. Genfo et al. 1991; Held and Soden 2000; Wentz and Schabel 2000; Held and Soden 2006).”
• Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “, Wetherald and Manabe, 1980], but these are insufficient to affect the feedback much [Held and Soden, 2000].”
• An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models (2006, background): “The reader is referred to Held and Soden (2000) for further FIG. 2. The zonal-mean, annual-mean distribution of the feedback kernels Kx for (top) temperature, (middle) water vapor, and (bottom) surface albedo.”
• A simple method to relate microwave radiances to upper tropospheric humidity (2005, background): “[2] Upper tropospheric humidity plays an important role in the Earth’s climate system because it is one of the main factors controlling outgoing longwave radiation [Held and Soden, 2000; Harries, 1997].”
• Evaluation of AERONET precipitable water vapor versus microwave radiometry, GPS, and radiosondes at ARM sites (2014, background): “, 2007] and provides the largest positive feedback in model projections of climate change [Held and Soden, 2000].”
• Error Reduction and Convergence in Climate Prediction (2008, background): “The leading cause of the intermodel differences in sensitivity to CO2 forcing is related to differences in the treatment of clouds (Cess et al. 1990, 1996; Held and Soden 2000; Colman 2003; Webb et al. 2006).”
• Climate policy modeling: An online SCI-E and SSCI based literature review (2015, background): “8 Unruh [42] 2000 Energy Policy 389 25.93 Spain 9 Duarte [43] 2002 Environmental Conservation 363 27.92 Spain 10 Held and Soden [44] 2000 Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 362 24.13 USA Note: This table is adapted from [30].”
• Control of interannual and longer‐term variability of stratospheric water vapor (2005, background): “[2] Stratospheric water vapor plays an important role for the radiation budget of the troposphere [ Held and Soden, 2000 ] as well as the stratosphere [Forster and Shine, 2002] and for stratospheric chemistry, in particular for ozone [Evans et al., 1998; Dvortsov and Solomon, 2001].”
• Polar amplification in a coupled climate model with locked albedo (2009, background): “It should further be mentioned that water vapour absorbs short-wave radiation (Held and Soden 2000).”
• Stratospheric water vapor trends over Boulder, Colorado: Analysis of the 30 year Boulder record (2011, background): “Atmospheric water vapor also provides the largest positive feedback in model projections of climate change [ Held and Soden, 2000 ].”
• A comparison of climate feedbacks in general circulation models (2003, background): “At the same time, the maximum in warming corresponds with a maximum in the relative change in specific humidity, which produces a strong maximum in the contribution to the water vapour feedback ( Held and Soden 2000 ).”
• Understanding Decreases in Land Relative Humidity with Global Warming: Conceptual Model and GCM Simulations (2016, methodology): “and we apply this model to idealized and fullcomplexity general circulation model (GCM) simulations. We first review the energy balance argument for the small increase in relative humidity over ocean (Held and Soden 2000; Schneider et al. 2010) and why it does not apply over land. Ocean evaporation i”