Journal
SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS
Volume 33, Issue 3-4, Pages 557-564Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9157-8
Keywords
Water vapour; Hydrological cycle; Radiative processes; Climate
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- UK Natural Environment Research Council PREPARE project [NE/G015708/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ncas10009, NE/I006672/1, NE/G015708/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/G015708/1, NE/I006672/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Water vapour modulates energy flows in Earth's climate system through transfer of latent heat by evaporation and condensation and by modifying the flows of radiative energy both in the longwave and shortwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This article summarizes the role of water vapour in Earth's energy flows with particular emphasis on (1) the powerful thermodynamic constraint of the Clausius Clapeyron equation, (2) dynamical controls on humidity above the boundary layer (or free-troposphere), (3) uncertainty in continuum absorption in the relatively transparent window regions of the radiative spectrum and (4) implications for changes in the atmospheric hydrological cycle.
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