Stratospheric water vapor increases over the past half‐century

By Karen H. Rosenlof, S. Oltmans, D. Kley, J. Russell, E. Chiou, W. Chu, David G. Johnson, K. Kelly, Hope A. Michelsen, Gerald E. Nedoluha and 3 more. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. J. Haigh
2. J. Lean
3. D. Shindell
4. S. Fueglistaler
5. U. Langematz
6. P. Haynes
7. D. Seidel
8. S. Sherwood

In Atmospheric Science

1. William J. Randel
2. Piers M. Forster
3. S. Fueglistaler
4. D. Seidel
5. D. Shindell
6. J. Hansen
7. Karen H. Rosenlof
8. P. Haynes

In Global and Planetary Change

1. William J. Randel
2. Piers M. Forster
3. D. Shindell
4. D. Seidel
5. S. Fueglistaler
6. J. Hansen
7. Karen H. Rosenlof
8. P. Haynes

Citations in the corpus

• Trends in the temperature and water vapor content of the tropical lower stratosphere: Sea surface connection (2008, methodology): “Figure 1: Historical water vapor measurements, from Kley et al., 2000 and Rosenlof et al., 2001.”
• Stratospheric water vapor predicted from the Lagrangian temperature history of air entering the stratosphere in the tropics (2005, methodology): “[10] As a consequence of the aforementioned uncertainties in ERA-40 temperatures, we refrain here from using the TST calculations to estimate possible multidecadal trends in stratospheric humidity [Rosenlof et al., 2001].”
• Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, methodology): “This was investigated by Sherwood and Meyer [2006], who showed that a very simple 2‐D, steady state model of a diabatically balanced overturning would reproduce both the observed humidity distribution and its sensitivity to a key rain reevaporation parameter as exhibited by a full GCM.”
• Control of interannual and longer‐term variability of stratospheric water vapor (2005, background): “[3] In addition to the seasonal cycle, there is significant interannual variability of stratospheric water vapor [e.g., Randel et al., 2004], and there is also some evidence for a long-term positive trend [Oltmans et al., 2000; Rosenlof et al., 2001].”
• A comparison of model‐simulated trends in stratospheric temperatures (2003, background): “Rosenlof et al. (2001) compare results from a variety of sources in northern mid-latitudes.”
• Climate forcings in Goddard Institute for Space Studies SI2000 simulations (2002, background): “Indeed, in our transient simulations (section 5) we find an increase of stratospheric H 2 O from 2.4 ppmv to 2.7 ppmv. Observations suggest that stratospheric H 2 O may have increased in the past half century by of the order of 1 ppmv [ Rosenlof et al. , 2001].”