Estimates are made of the effect of changes in tropospheric water vapor on the climate sensitivity to doubled carbon dioxide (CO2), using a coarse resolution atmospheric general circulation model coupled to a slab mixed layer ocean. The sensitivity of the model to doubled CO2 is found as the difference between the equilibrium responses for control and doubled CO2 cases. Clouds are specified to ...

The primary objective of this paper is to enhance the water-vapor-adsorption capacity of multiwall-carbon-nanotube (MWCNT) from nitrogen gas by grafting sulfonic acid groups and doping palladium nanoparticles into the adsorbent. MWCNT has been selected to be modified because of having homogeneous adsorption energy compared to silica gel. As a result, it is capable of creating isotherm having sh...

We report the discovery of a layer of enhanced water vapor in the Arctic summer mesosphere that was made utilizing two new techniques for remotely determining water vapor abundances. The first utilizes Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation (MAHRSI) OH measurements as a proxy for water vapor. The second is a reanalysis of Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) water vapor ...

*It is very important to accurately characterize the three-dimensional distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere for the understanding and prediction of mesoscale and storm-scale weather, especially with regard to quantitative precipitation forecasting (Emanuel et al. 1995). Skills in these predictions have been improved rather slowly owing to the high spatial and temporal variability of wa...

In moist convection, atmospheric motions transport water vapor from the earth’s surface to the regions where condensation occurs. This transport is associated with three other aspects of convection: the latent heat transport, the expansion work performed by water vapor, and the irreversible entropy production due to diffusion of water vapor and phase changes. An analysis of the thermodynamic tr...

One of the most important parameters in all surface-atmosphere interactions (e.g. energy fluxes between the ground and the atmosphere) is atmospheric water vapor. It is also an indicator among others to modeling the energy balance at the Earth’s surface. Total atmospheric water vapor content is an important parameter in some remote sensing applications especially land surface temperature (LST) ...

Children appear to be more susceptible to chlorpyrifos poisoning than adults, and are often exposed to more residues. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates children consume (after adjusting for their size) between 2 and 2.5 times as much chlorpyrifos on their food as do adults. When houses are treated with chlorpyrifos, carpets can serve as a source of chlorpyrifos vapors when resi...

Ground-based measurements of meteorological parameters and water-soluble organic carbon in the gas(WSOCg) and particle (WSOCp) phases were carried out in Atlanta, Georgia, from May to September 2007. Fourteen separate events were observed throughout the summer in which WSOCp and water vapor concentrations were highly correlated (average WSOCp-water vapor r = 0.92); however, for the entire summe...

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...