DOI number:10.1029/2021GL097609
Journal:Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract:The significant climate feedback of stratospheric water vapor (SWV) necessitates quantitative estimates of SWV budget changes. Model simulations driven by the newest European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast reanalysis ERA5, satellite observations from the Stratospheric Water and OzOne Satellite Homogenized data set, Microwave Limb Sounder, and in situ frost point hygrometer observations from Boulder all show substantial and persistent stratospheric moistening after a sharp drop in water vapor at the turn of the millennium. This moistening occurred mainly during 2000–2006 and SWV abundances then remained high over the last decade. We find strong positive trends in the Northern Hemisphere and weak negative trends over the South Pole, mainly during austral winter. Moistening of the tropical stratosphere after 2000 occurred during late boreal winter/spring, reached values of ∼0.2 ppm/decade, was well correlated with a warming of the cold point tropopause by ∼0.4 K/decade and can only be partially attributed to El Nino-Southern Oscillation and volcanic eruptions.
Note:Konopka, P., M. Tao, F. Ploeger, D. F. Hurst, M. L. Santee, J. S. Wright and M. Riese
Indexed by:Journal paper
Document Code:e2021GL097609
Discipline:Natural Science
First-Level Discipline:Atmospheric Sciences
Volume:49
Issue:8
Page Number:e2021GL097609
Translation or Not:no
Included Journals:SCI
Links to published journals:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097609