Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4159-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4159-2016
Research article
 | 
30 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2016

Upper tropospheric humidity changes under constant relative humidity

Klaus Gierens and Kostas Eleftheratos

Viewed

Total article views: 2,690 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
1,690 894 106 2,690 86 87
  • HTML: 1,690
  • PDF: 894
  • XML: 106
  • Total: 2,690
  • BibTeX: 86
  • EndNote: 87
Views and downloads (calculated since 29 Oct 2015)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 29 Oct 2015)

Cited

Saved (preprint)

Latest update: 20 Apr 2024
Download
Short summary
Upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) is a weighted mean of the relative humidity (RH) in the upper troposphere. It can change due to climate change even when the relative humidity would stay unchanged because the weighting functions will alter. We show that changes of UTH expected during 30 years of tropospheric warming are typically less than 1 % in magnitude and mostly negative. Larger positive changes of UTH (as found in an analysis of 30 years of satellite data) point thus to an increase of RH.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint