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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 110, Issue 45, Pages 18087-18091Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310344110
Keywords
climate change; lowermost stratosphere; overworld
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- National Science Foundation [AGS-1261948]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1261948] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We show here that stratospheric water vapor variations play an important role in the evolution of our climate. This comes from analysis of observations showing that stratospheric water vapor increases with tropospheric temperature, implying the existence of a stratospheric water vapor feedback. We estimate the strength of this feedback in a chemistry- climate model to be + 0.3 W/( m(2).K), which would be a significant contributor to the overall climate sensitivity. One- third of this feedback comes from increases in water vapor entering the stratosphere through the tropical tropopause layer, with the rest coming from increases in water vapor entering through the extratropical tropopause.
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