Dewpoint and humidity measurements and trends at the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 1935-2004

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5629-5641

  Seidel, Thomas M ^a   Grant, Andrea N ^b   Pszenny, Alexander A P ^a,c   Allman, Daniel J ^a,d  

^a Mount Washington Observatory   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGY;

DEW POINT; FOG; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXING RATIO; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37349105316     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1604.1     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Bliss, L. C., 1963: Alpine plant communities of the Presidential Range, New Hampshire. Ecology, 44, 678-697.
2. Brumback, W. E., D. M. Weihrauch, and K. D. Kimball, 2004: Propagation and transplanting of an endangered Alpine species Robbins' Cinquefoil Potentilla robbinsiana (Rosaceae). Native Plants, 5, 91-97.
3. Buck, A. L., 1981: New equations for computing vapor pressure and enhancement factor. J. Appl. Meteor., 20, 1527-1532.
4. Dai, A. G., 2006: Recent climatology, variability, and trends in global surface humidity. J. Climate, 19, 3589-3606.
5. Dodd, A. V., 1965: Dew point distribution in the contiguous United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 93, 113-122.
6. Elliott, W. P., 1995: On detecting long-term changes in atmospheric moisture. Climatic Change, 31, 349-367.
7. Elliott, W. P., and J. K. Angell, 1997: Variations of cloudiness, precipitable water, and relative humidity over the United States: 1973-1993. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 41-44.
8. Falconer, R. E., 1947: Use of Pitot Tube to compensate for presure deficiency caused by wind on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 28, 385-397.
9. Gaffen, D. J., and R. J. Ross, 1999: Climatology and trends of U.S. surface humidity and temperature. J. Climate, 12, 811-828.
10. Glickman, T., Ed., 2000: Glossary of Meteorology. 2d ed. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 855 pp.
11. Grant, A. N., A. A. P. Pszenny, and E. V. Fischer, 2005: The 1935-2003 air temperature record from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. J. Climate, 18, 4445-4453.
12. Graybeal, D. Y., A. T. DeGaetano, and K. L. Eggleston, 2004: Improved quality assurance for historical hourly temperature and humidity: Development and application to environmental analysis. J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 1722-1735.
13. Houghton, J. T., Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P. J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C. A. Johnson, Eds., 2001: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Cambridge University Press, 881 pp.
14. Kalkstein, L. S., M. C. Nichols, C. D. Barthel, and J. S. Greene, 1996: A new spatial synoptic classification: Application to air-mass analysis. Int. J. Climatol., 18, 983-1004.
15. Kalkstein, L. S., S. C. Sheridan, and D. Y. Graybeal, 1998: A determination of character and frequency changes in air masses using a spatial synoptic classification. Int. J. Climatol., 18, 1223-1236.
16. Keim, B. D., L. D. Meeker, and J. F. Slater, 2005: Manual synoptic climate classification for the East Coast of New England (USA) with an application to PM2.5 concentration. Climate Res., 28, 143-154.
17. Kimball, K. D., and D. M. Weihrauch, 2000: Alpine vegetation communities and the Alpine-treeline ectone boundary in New England as biomonitors for climate change. Wilderness Science in a Time of Change: Missoula, Montana, May 23-27, 1999, D. N. Cole et al., Eds., U.S. Department of Agriculture, 93-101.
18. Lanzante, J. R., 1996: Resistant, robust and non-parametric techniques for the analysis of climate data: Theory and examples, including applications to historical radiosonde station data. Int. J. Climatol., 16, 1197-1226.
19. Malanson, G. P., and D. M. Cairns, 1995: Effects of increased cloud-cover on a montane forest landscape. Ecoscience, 2, 75-82.
20. Monahan, R. S., and S. Pagliuca, 1933: The Mount Washington Observatory. Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 14, 85-88.
21. Richardson, A. D., E. G. Denny, T. G. Siccama, and X. Lee, 2003: Evidence for a rising cloud ceiling in eastern North America. J. Climate, 16, 2093-2098.
22. Richardson, A. D., X. Lee, and A. J. Friedland, 2004: Microclimatology of treeline spruce-fir forests in mountains of the northeastern United States. Agric. For. Meteor., 125, 53-66.
23. Robinson, P. J., 1998: Monthly variations of dew point temperature in the coterminous United States. Int. J. Climatol., 18, 1539-1556.
24. Robinson, P. J., 2000: Temporal trends in United States dew point temperatures. Int. J. Climatol., 20, 985-1002.
25. Ross, R. J., and W. P. Elliott, 1996: Tropospheric water vapor climatology and trends over North America: 1973-93. J. Climate, 9, 3561-3574.
26. Ross, R. J., and W. P. Elliott, 2001: Radiosonde-based Northern Hemisphere tropospheric water vapor trends. J. Climate, 14, 1602-1612.
27. Schwartzman, P. D., P. J. Michaels, and P. C. Knappenberger, 1998: Observed changes in the diurnal dewpoint cycles across North America. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2265-2268.
28. Sheridan, S. C., 2002: The redevelopment of a weather-type classification scheme for North America. Int. J. Climatol., 22, 51-68.
29. Shuman, B., P. Newby, Y. S. Huang, and T. Webb, 2004: Evidence for the close climatic control of New England vegetation history. Ecology, 85, 1297-1310.
30. Shuman, B., P. Newby, J. P. Donnelly, A. Tarbox, and T. Webb, 2005: A record of late-quaternary moisture-balance change and vegetation response from the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geogr., 95, 237-248.
31. Trenberth, K. E., 1990: Recent observed interdecadal climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 71, 988-993.
32. Trenberth, K. E., J. Fasullo, and L. Smith, 2005: Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor. Climate Dyn., 24, 741-758.
33. USDA, 1939: Instructions for Airway Meteorological Service, Circular N, Aerological Division. 4th ed. U.S. Government Printing Office, 157 pp.
34. USDC, 1969: Manual of Surface Observations, Circular N, Aerological Division. 7th ed. U.S. Government Printing Office, 183 pp.
35. Vömel, H., cited 2006: Saturation vapor pressure formulations. [Available online at http://cires.colorado.edu/~voemel/vp.html.]
36. WMO, 1996: Measurement of humidity. Guide to Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observation, 6th ed. WMO, I.4-1-I.4-25.
37. Wright, J., 1995: Surface weather observations and reports. Federal Meteorological Handbook 1, OFCM, U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA, 94 pp.