Speaker
Richard Allan
(University of Reading)
Description
Increases in tropospheric water vapour with warming drive a powerful amplifying effect on climate change, alter the surface and atmospheric energy balance and at low altitudes enhance moisture transport into weather systems leading to more intense precipitation. An evaluation of water vapour changes and variability simulated by a selection of CMIP6 climate model “historical” and “amip” experiments at global and tropics-wide scales will be presented using ground-based and satellite estimates from HadISDH, SSMIS and AIRS and the ERA5 reanalysis.
Primary author
Richard Allan
(University of Reading)
