The role of methane in projections of 21st century stratospheric water vapour

Revell, Laura E.; Stenke, Andrea; Rozanov, Eugene; Ball, William; Lossow, Stefan; Peter, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13067-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13067-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13067-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 20

Research article

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21 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 21 Oct 2016

The role of methane in projections of 21st century stratospheric water vapour

Laura E. Revell, Andrea Stenke, Eugene Rozanov, William Ball, Stefan Lossow, and Thomas Peter

Data sets

Data, Part of the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI-1) Project Database ETH-PMOD (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the Physical-Meteorology Observatory Davos) http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1005d2c25d14483aa66a5f4a7f50fcf0

Short summary

Water vapour in the stratosphere plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and the Earth's radiative balance. We have analysed trends in stratospheric water vapour through the 21st century as simulated by a coupled chemistry–climate model following a range of greenhouse gas emission scenarios. We have also quantified the contribution that methane oxidation in the stratosphere makes to projected water vapour trends.