scholarly journals Updated Temperature Data Give a Sharper View of Climate Trends

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huai-Min Zhang ◽  
Jay Lawrimore ◽  
Boyin Huang ◽  
Matthew Menne ◽  
Xungang Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Climate Trends ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface

The latest version of NOAA’s Global Surface Temperature Dataset improves coverage over land and sea and improves the treatment of historical changes in observational practices.

scholarly journals Improved Global Surface Temperature Simulation using Stratospheric Ozone Forcing with More Accurate Variability

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Xie ◽  
Jianping Li ◽  
Cheng Sun ◽  
Ruiqiang Ding ◽  
Nan Xing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Stratospheric Ozone ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface

A Blended Satellite–In Situ Near–Global Surface Temperature Dataset

2000 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 2157-2164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Peterson ◽  
Alan N. Basist ◽  
Claude N. Williams ◽  
Norman C. Grody
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface

scholarly journals Global Hydrological Cycle Response to Rapid and Slow Global Warming

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (22) ◽  
pp. 8781-8786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Back ◽  
Karen Russ ◽  
Zhengyu Liu ◽  
Kuniaki Inoue ◽  
Jiaxu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Precipitation Changes ◽  
Global Surface ◽  
Global Mean ◽  
Global Water

Abstract This study analyzes the response of global water vapor to global warming in a series of fully coupled climate model simulations. The authors find that a roughly 7% K−1 rate of increase of water vapor with global surface temperature is robust only for rapid anthropogenic-like climate change. For slower warming that occurred naturally in the past, the Southern Ocean has time to equilibrate, producing a different pattern of surface warming, so that water vapor increases at only 4.2% K−1. This lower rate of increase of water vapor with warming is not due to relative humidity changes or differences in mean lower-tropospheric temperature. A temperature of over 80°C would be required in the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship to match the 4.2% K−1 rate of increase. Instead, the low rate of increase is due to spatially heterogeneous warming. During slower global warming, there is enhanced warming at southern high latitudes, and hence less warming in the tropics per kelvin of global surface temperature increase. This leads to a smaller global water vapor increase, because most of the atmospheric water vapor is in the tropics. A formula is proposed that applies to general warming scenarios. This study also examines the response of global-mean precipitation and the meridional profile of precipitation minus evaporation and compares the latter to thermodynamic scalings. It is found that global-mean precipitation changes are remarkably robust between rapid and slow warming. Thermodynamic scalings for the rapid- and slow-warming zonal-mean precipitation are similar, but the precipitation changes are significantly different, suggesting that circulation changes are important in driving these differences.

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