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Observations of Climate Feedbacks over 2000–10 and Comparisons to Climate Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: eedbacks in response to climate variations during the period 2000?10 have been calculated using reanalysis meteorological fields and top-of-atmosphere flux measurements. Over this period, the climate was stabilized by a ...
Estimates of the Water Vapor Climate Feedback during El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The strength of the water vapor feedback has been estimated by analyzing the changes in tropospheric specific humidity during El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles. This analysis is done in climate models driven by ...
The Distribution of Tropical Thin Cirrus Clouds Inferred from Terra MODIS Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Thin cirrus clouds (with optical depths τ ? 1) play a potentially important role in the earth's atmosphere. However, their tenuous nature makes them difficult to detect, and as a result there are few quantitative, global ...
UARS/MLS Cloud Ice Measurements: Implications for H2O Transport near the Tropopause
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A technique for detecting large hydrometeors at high altitudes is described here and applied to the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite/Microwave Limb Sounder (UARS/MLS) 203-GHz radiance measurements at tangent pressures ...