The temperature response to stratospheric water vapour changes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 657, 2011, Pages 1070-1082

  Maycock, A C ^a   Shine, K P ^a   Joshi, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fixed dynamical heating; Radiative transfer; Stratospheric water vapour

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; EXTRATROPICS; FIXED DYNAMICAL HEATING; HEATING MODELS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MAXIMUM COOLING; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERIC WATER VAPOUR; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; WATER VAPOUR;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUDS; HEATING; HEATING RATE; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPACITY;

COOLING;

PERTURBATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOPAUSE; UPWELLING; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79957921040     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.822     Document Type: Article

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