Timeline for Does 1°C warming increase the H2O content of the atmosphere by 7%?
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 14:13 | history | edited | DavePhD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 13:59 | comment | added | DavePhD | @BobTheAverage I found a great reference and will totally change my answer. journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI3816.1 | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 5:31 | comment | added | BobTheAverage | @davephd Your answer needs to make the difference between content and capacity more clear. | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 14:17 | comment | added | DavePhD | @jeffronicus There is significant ongoing research in this field. journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0351.1 The relative humidity over land (where global temperature has increased the most) is decreasing. climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/… Absolute humidity is increasing, but is partially mitigated by the decrease in relative humidity. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 23:40 | comment | added | jeffronicus | This shouldn't be too controversial; if you've ever visited a tropical climate, you've probably experienced the greater capacity of the warmer air to hold moisture. Even the Wikipedia entry on relative humidity notes "A useful rule of thumb is that the maximum absolute humidity doubles for every 20 °F or 10 °C increase in temperature." Which is roughly 7% per 1 degree C. | |
| Feb 27, 2018 at 20:13 | history | answered | DavePhD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |