Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming

By S. Solomon, Karen H. Rosenlof, R. Portmann, J. Daniel, S. Davis, T. Sanford, Gian-Kasper Plattner. Science, 2010

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The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 (WACCM6) (2019, background): “…climate and chemistry of the stratosphere may also affect the surface, by changing surface forcing through the climatology of water vapor and ozone (Solomon et al., 2010), by stratospheric aerosol loading (Mills et al., 2016), or dynamical interactions between the stratosphere and troposphere with…”
Observed temporal evolution of global mean age of stratospheric air for the 2002 to 2010 period (2011, background): “A drop in tropical lower stratospheric water vapor in the year 2000 with persistently lower values in the following years has also been linked to colder tropopause temperatures due to increased tropical upwelling (Rosenlof and Reid, 2008; Solomon et al., 2010; Dhomse et al., 2008).”
THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “While radiative time scales in the Ex ‐ UTLS are relatively long, there can be substantial impact on tropospheric climate and surface temperature from Ex ‐ UTLS ozone [ Forster and Tourpali , 2001] and water vapor [ Forster and Shine , 2002; Solomon et al. , 2010].”
Impact of uncertainties in atmospheric mixing on simulated UTLS composition and related radiative effects (2012, methodology): “trace gases can be obtained by integrating a height-dependent sensitivity function (or weighting function) with heightdependent changes in the vertical trace gas concentration [e.g., Lacis et al., 1990; Solomon et al., 2010].”
Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, background): “…suggest the importance of the Pacific [Trenberth and Fasullo, 2013; Trenberth et al., 2014; England et al., 2014] and changes in external forcing [Solomon et al., 2010, 2011; Kaufmann et al., 2011]; yet others suggest that the SST hiatus may, in fact, be an artifact due to data biases [Karl et…”
GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE (2010, result): “Even a more moderate assessment [Solomon et al., 2010, p. 1219], “the trend in global surface temperature has been nearly flat since the late 1990s despite continuing increases in the forcing due to the sum of the well‐mixed greenhouse gases,” is not supported by our data.”
World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010 (2012, background): “sols [Solomon et al., 2011] may also have contributed. Church et al. [2011] discussed these factors in a study of the variability of ocean heat content and sea level.”
NAO implicated as a predictor of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature multidecadal variability (2013, neutral): “The NHT exhibits a warming-cooling-warming (WCW) pattern in the twentieth century [ Thompson et al ., 2010] and a noticeable ﬂ at trend over the past decade [ Keenlyside et al ., 2008; Easterling and Wehner , 2009; Swanson and Tsonis , 2009; Solomon et al ., 2010].”
Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale (2011, background): “vapor concentrations over 2000 to 2009 [Solomon et al., 2010], and increases in volcanic aerosol loadings over the last decade [Vernier et al.”
Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures (2015, background): “…al., 2011; Ridley et al., 2014; Santer et al., 2014a, 2014b], a reduction in solar activity, a decrease in stratospheric water vapor concentration [Solomon et al., 2010], internal variability [Meehl et al., 2011, 2013; Trenberth and Fasullo, 2013; Kosaka and Xie, 2013; Mann et al., 2014; Steinman…”
Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature (2014, methodology): “26), we use the shorter 48-month volcanically-quiescent period from January 2001 to December 2004 for calculating a1 and scaling the noise z(t) in equation (10).”
Chemical and dynamical discontinuity at the extratropical tropopause based on START08 and WACCM analyses (2011, background): “In addition, a change in the atmospheric trace gas composition in the UTLS, in particular O3 or H2O, has the potential to affect the surface climate [Forster and Shine, 1997; Solomon et al., 2010].”
Decadal Changes in the Near-Surface Air Temperature in the Western Side of the Antarctic Peninsula (2013, background): “However, this different behavior, observed in the northern tip of the AP during the last decade, dose not necessary support the assertion that the trend or the rate of global warming is less after mid 90s [28], so that the explanation can be found in the local environmental changes and interaction a”
The Climate Response to Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Can Be Tailored Using Multiple Injection Locations (2017, background): “Heating of the tropical tropopause layer leads to increased water vapor transport into the stratosphere (Heckendorn et al., 2009; Pitari et al., 2014) that in turn influences radiative forcing (Solomon et al., 2010).”