The Mass of the Atmosphere: A Constraint on Global Analyses

By Kevin E. Trenberth, Lesley Smith. 2005

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Atmospheric Science

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2. P. O’Gorman
3. J. Whitaker
4. L. Haimberger
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6. Gilbert P. Compo
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In Global and Planetary Change

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2. P. O’Gorman
3. J. Whitaker
4. L. Haimberger
5. Tapio Schneider
6. Gilbert P. Compo
7. Jean-Noel Thepaut
8. Richard G. Forbes

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5. Alan J. Geer
6. Gilbert P. Compo
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Citations in the corpus

• Global water vapor variability and trend from the latest 36 year (1979 to 2014) data of ECMWF and NCEP reanalyses, radiosonde, GPS, and microwave satellite (2016, methodology): “This abrupt change is likely related to the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 [Trenberth and Smith, 2005].”
• The ERA5 global reanalysis (2020, background): “01 hPa, dry air mass is expected to be approximately conserved in the atmosphere (Trenberth and Smith, 2005).”
• WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES (2009, background): “…times of vapor and condensate are similar (days and longer), and so are the specific latent heat of vaporization and that of sublimation, but the atmosphere in the global mean contains about 250 times more water vapor (∼25 kg m−2) than liquid water and ice (∼0.1 kg m−2) [Trenberth and Smith, 2005].”
• Feasibility of a 100-Year Reanalysis Using Only Surface Pressure Data (2006, background): “…storm-track variability (Harnik and Chang 2003; Chang and Fu 2003; Hodges et al. 2003) to incorrect tropical variability (Newman et al. 2000) and spurious long-term trends (Trenberth and Smith 2005; Bengtsson et al. 2004a,b; Kinter et al. 2004; Kistler et al. 2001; Basist and Chelliah 1997).”
• Atmospheric conservation properties in ERA‐Interim (2011, background): “In ERA-40 for the 13-year period 1989–2001, the range in TCWV of 3.2 kg m−2 is 28% larger than that in mass, a similar result to that found by Trenberth and Smith (2005).”
• The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2). (2017, background): “Studies have documented the difficulty of maintaining realistic balances between variations in total mass and total water content in previous reanalyses (e.g., Trenberth and Smith 2005; Bosilovich et al. 2011; Berrisford et al. 2011).”
• The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950 (2021, background): “Trenberth and Smith (2005) estimated a change of surface pressure of less than 1 Pa from the increase in carbon dioxide and related changes in oxygen content over the industrial period.”
• A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles (2015, background): “25% of the total mass of the atmosphere [Trenberth and Smith, 2005].”