ATMOSPHERIC WATER BALANCE AND GLOBAL HYDROLOGIC CYCLE

The summertime atmospheric hydrologic cycle over the southwestern US

Effect of water vapor feedback on internal and anthropogenic variations of the global hydrologic cycle

Using two versions of the GFDL coupled ocean-atmosphere model, one where water vapor anomalies are allowed to affect the longwave radiation calculation and one where they are not, we examine the role of water vapor feedback in internal precipitation variability and greenhouse-gas-forced intensification of the hydrologic cycle. Without external forcing, the experiment with water vapor feedback p...

Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport and the Water Balance of North

The atmospheric water vapor flux divergence and certain aspects of the water balance of North America are investigated, using data from the period May 1, 1958-Apr. 30, 1963. The mean vertical distribution of flux divergence is computed for the United States for the months of January (1962, 1963) and July (1961, 1962). Strong flux convergence in the lowest kilometer and divergence in the remaind...

Diurnal Cycle in Atmospheric Water over Switzerland

The TROpospheric WAter RAdiometer (TROWARA) is a ground-based microwave radiometer with an additional infrared channel observing atmospheric water parameters in Bern, Switzerland. TROWARA measures with nearly all-weather capability during dayand nighttime with a high temporal resolution (about 10 s). Using the almost complete data set from 2004 to 2016, we derive and discuss the diurnal cycles ...

The diurnal cycle of the summertime atmospheric hydrologic cycle over the southwestern US