Relationship between temperature and precipitable water changes over tropical oceans

Mears, Carl A., Santer, Benjamin D., Wentz, Frank J., Taylor, Karl E. and Wehner, Michael F. (2007) Relationship between temperature and precipitable water changes over tropical oceans. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (24). ISSN 0094-8276

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Abstract

We use observations, climate models and reanalysis output to examine the relationship between changes in temperature and changes in precipitable water. In climate models these variables are highly correlated over the tropical oceans, with a similar scaling ratio for interannual and decadal time scales. This result is consistent with the most recently developed satellite datasets. In contrast, scaling rations based either on an earlier version of the satellite measurements or reanalysis show scaling ratios that are inconsistent with models, and are dependent on time scale. These results demonstrate that climate model output is useful for evaluating differences between divergent observational datasets.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geophysics,earth and planetary sciences(all),sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2026 16:30
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2026 01:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102462
DOI:	10.1029/2007GL031936

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