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ArticleNature geoscience2023

Response of stratospheric water vapour to warming constrained by satellite observations.

Peer Nowack, Paulo Ceppi, Sean M Davis, Gabriel Chiodo, Will Ball, Mohamadou A Diallo, Birgit Hassler, Yue Jia, James Keeble, Manoj Joshi

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Article in Nature geoscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 9 institutions in 5 countries.

Peer NowackClimatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4588-7832
Paulo CeppiGrantham Institute and Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3754-3506
Sean M DavisNOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9276-6158
Gabriel ChiodoInstitute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8079-6314
Will BallInstitute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1005-3670
Mohamadou A DialloInstitute of Energy and Climate Research, Stratosphere (IEK-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0225-8120
Birgit HasslerDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2724-709X
Yue JiaNOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2210-9050
James KeebleYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2714-1084
Manoj JoshiClimatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2948-2811
ETH Zurich · CHCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences · USDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) · DEForschungszentrum Jülich · DEImperial College London · GBKarlsruhe Institute of Technology · DENOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory · USUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of East Anglia · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Future increases in stratospheric water vapour risk amplifying climate change and slowing down the recovery of the ozone layer. However, state-of-the-art climate models strongly disagree on the magnitude of these increases under global warming. Uncertainty primarily arises from the complex processes leading to dehydration of air during its tropical ascent into the stratosphere. Here we derive an observational constraint on this longstanding uncertainty. We use a statistical-learning approach to infer historical co-variations between the atmospheric temperature structure and tropical lower stratospheric water vapour concentrations. For climate models, we demonstrate that these historically constrained relationships are highly predictive of the water vapour response to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. We obtain an observationally constrained range for stratospheric water vapour changes per degree of global warming of 0.31 ± 0.39 ppmv K

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