Water vapor variability and comparisons in the subtropical Pacific from the Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment-Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC) Driftsonde, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC), and reanalyses

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Junhong ^a   Zhang, Liangying ^a   Lin, Po Hsiung ^b   Bradford, Mark ^a   Cole, Harold ^a   Fox, Jack ^a   Hock, Terry ^a   Lauritsen, Dean ^a   Loehrer, Scot ^a   Martin, Charlie ^a   Vanandel, Joseph ^a   Weng, Chun Hsiung ^b   Young, Kathryn ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RHODIUM COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER SATELLITES;

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; DATA ANALYSIS; DRY AIR; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; LONGITUDINAL VARIATIONS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; PACIFIC OCEAN; REANALYSIS; REFRACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SINGLE PEAK; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; UPPER AIR; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

COSMOLOGY;

AIRCRAFT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78249261251     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014494     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Anthes, R. A., et al. (2008), The COSMOC/FORMOSAT-3-Mission early results, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc, 89, 313-333, doi:10.1175/BAMS-89-3-313. (Pubitemid 351756666)
2. Brown, R. G., and C. D. Zhang (1997), Variability of midtropospheric moisture and its effect on cloud-top height distribution during TOGA COARE, J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 2760-2774, doi:10.1175/1520-0469 (1997) 054<2760: VOMMAI>2.0.CO;2.
3. Chou, M.-D., C.-H. Weng, and P.-H. Lin (2009), Analyses of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC humidity retrievals and comparisons with AIRS retrievals and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00G03, doi:10.1029/2008JD010227 [printed 115 (D2), 2010].
4. Elliott, W. P., and D. J. Gaffen (1991), On the utility of radiosonde humidity archives for climate studies, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 72, 1507-1520, doi:10.1175/1520-0477 (1991) 072<1507:OTUORH>2.0.CO;2.
5. Galewsky, J., A. Sobel, and I. Held (2005), Diagnosis of subtropical humidity dynamics using tracers of last saturation, J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3353-3367, doi:10.1175/JAS3533.1. (Pubitemid 41601737)
6. Held, I. M., and B. J. Soden (2000), Water vapor feedback and global warming, Annu. Rev. Energy Environ., 25, 441-475, doi:10.1146/annurev. energy.25.1.441.
7. Hock, T. F., and J. L. Franklin (1999), The NCAR GPS dropwindsonde, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 80, 407-420, doi: 10.1175/1520-0477 (1999) 080<0407:TNGD>2.0.CO;2.
8. Kanamitsu, M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S. K. Yang, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, and G. L. Potter (2002), NCEP-DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2), Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 83, 1631-1643, doi:10.1175/BAMS-83-11-1631 (2002) 083<1631:NAR>2.3.CO;2.
9. Kistler, R., et al. (2001), The NCEP-NCAR 50-year reanalysis: Monthly means CD-ROM and documentation, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc, 82, 247-267, doi:10.1175/1520-0477 (2001) 082<0247:TNNYRM>2.3.CO;2.
10. Luo, Z. Z., D. Kley, R. H. Johnson, and H. Smit (2008), Ten years of measurements of tropical upper-tropospheric water vapor by MOZAIC. part II: Assessing the ECMWF humidity analysis, J. Clim., 21, 1449-1466, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1887.1. (Pubitemid 351753185)
11. Miloshevich, L. M., H. Voemel, D. N. Whiteman, and T. Leblanc (2009), Accuracy assessment and correction of Vaisala RS92 radiosonde water vapor measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D11305, doi:10.1029/2008JD011565.
12. Peixoto, J. P., and A. H. Oort (1996), The climatology of relative humidity in the atmosphere, J. Clim., 9, 3443-3463, doi:10.1175/1520-0442 (1996) 009<3443:TCORHI>2.0.CO;2.
13. Pierrehumbert, R. T. (1998), Lateral mixing as a source of subtropical water vapor, Geophys. Res. Lett, 25(2), 151-154, doi:10.1029/97GL03563.
14. Pierrehumbert, R. T., and R. Roca (1998), Evidence for control of Atlantic subtropical humidity by large-scale advection, Geophys. Res. Lett, 25(24), 4537-4540, doi:10.1029/1998GL900203.
15. Pierrehumbert, R. T., H. Brogniez, and R. Roca (2006), On the relative humidity of the atmosphere, in The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, edited by T. Schneider, A. H. Sobel, and E. N. Lorenz, pp. 143-185, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N. J.
16. Ryoo, J. M., T. Igusa, and D. W. Waugh (2009), PDFs of tropical tropospheric humidity: Measurements and theory, J. Clim., 22, 3357-3373, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2747.1.
17. Salathé, E. P., and D. L. Hartmann (1997), A trajectory analysis of tropical upper-tropospheric moisture and convection, J. Clim., 10, 2533-2547, doi:10.1175/1520-0442 (1997) 010<2533:ATAOTU>2.0.CO;2.
18. Sherwood, S. C, E. R. Kursinski, and W. G. Read (2006), A distribution law for free-tropospheric relative humidity, J. Clim., 19, 6267-6277, doi:10.1175/JCLI3978.1. (Pubitemid 46085146)
19. Shine, K. P., and A. Sinha (1991), Sensitivity of the Earth's climate to height-dependent changes in the water-vapor mixing-ratio, Nature, 354, 382-384, doi:10.1038/354382a0.
20. Smithsonian Institution (1984), Smithsonian Meteorological Tables, 5th ed., 350 pp., Washington, D. C.
21. Soden, B. J. (1998), Tracking upper tropospheric water vapor radiances: A satellite perspective, J. Geophys. Res., 103 (D14), 17, 069-17, 081, doi:10.1029/98JD01151.
22. Spencer, R. W., and W. D. Braswell (1997), How dry is the tropical free troposphere? Implications for global warming theory, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc, 78, 1097-1106, doi:10.1175/1520-0477 (1997) 078<1097: HDITTF>2.0.CO;2.
23. Sun, D. Z., and R. S. Lindzen (1993), Distribution of tropical tropospheric water-vapor, J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1643-1660, doi:10.1175/1520-0469 (1993) 050<1643:DOTTWV>2.0.CO;2.
24. Tompkins, A. M., K. Gierens, and G. Radel (2007), Ice supersaturation in the ECMWF integrated forecast system, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc, 133, 53-63, doi:10.1002/qj.14. (Pubitemid 46421390)
25. Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot (1998), Evaluation of the atmospheric moisture and hydrological cycle in the NCEP/NCAR reanalyses, Clim. Dyn., 14, 213-231, doi:10.1007/s003820050219.
26. Trenberth, K. E., J. Fasullo, and L. Smith (2005), Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor, Clim. Dyn., 24, 741-758, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0017-4. (Pubitemid 41222385)
27. Voemel, H., H. Selkirk, L. Miloshevich, J. Valverde-Canossa, J. Valdes, E. Kyro, R. Kivi, W. Stolz, G. Peng, and J. A. Diaz (2007), Radiation dry bias of the Vaisala RS92 humidity sensor, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 24, 953-963, doi:10.1175/JTECH2019.1. (Pubitemid 47023783)
28. Wang, J., H. L. Cole, and D. J. Carlson (2001), Water vapor variability in the tropical western Pacific from a 20-year radiosonde data, Adv. Atmos. Sci., 18, 752-766.
29. Wang, J. H., H. L. Cole, D. J. Carlson, E. R. Miller, K. Beierle, A. Paukkunen, and T. K. Laine (2002), Corrections of humidity measurement errors from the Vaisala RS80 radiosonde-Application to TOGA COARE data, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol, 19, 981-1002, doi:10.1175/1520-0426 (2002) 019<0981: COHMEF>2.0.CO;2.
30. Wang, J. H., L. Y. Zhang, A. Dai, T. Van Hove, and J. Van Baelen (2007), A near-global, 2-hourly data set of atmospheric precipitable water from ground-based GPS measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11107, doi:10.1029/2006JD007529. (Pubitemid 47287990)
31. Zhang, C. D., B. E. Mapes, and B. J. Soden (2003), Bimodality in tropical water vapour, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc, 129, 2847-2866, doi:10.1256/qj.02.166.