Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system

Water vapor is a greenhouse gas that dominates Earth's terrestrial radiation absorption. As the planetary temperature warms, forced by increasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases, water vapor content of the atmosphere increases, thereby producing the strongest positive feedback in the climate sys...

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Published in:Reviews of modern physics 2021-12, Vol.93 (4), Article 045002
Main Authors: Colman, Robert, Soden, Brian J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric models
Atmospheric temperature
Climate change
Feedback
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Lapse rate
Negative feedback
Physicists
Planetary temperature
Positive feedback
Radiation absorption
Terrestrial radiation
Water vapor
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