Freezing thresholds and cirrus cloud formation mechanisms inferred from in situ measurements of relative humidity W. Haag, B. Kärcher, J. Ström, A. Minikin, U. Lohmann, J. Ovarlez, and A. Stohl Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Stockholm University, Institute of Applied Environmental Research (ITM), Stockholm, Swed...

[1] Key climate feedback due to water vapor and clouds rest largely on how relative humidity R changes in a warmer climate, yet this has not been extensively analyzed in models. General circulation models (GCMs) from the CMIP3 archive and several higher‐ resolution atmospheric GCMs examined here generally predict a characteristic pattern of R trend with global temperature that has been reported...

Water is a nearly miraculous molecule that enters into the operation of the climate system in a remarkable variety of ways. A wide-ranging overview can be found in Pierrehumbert (2002). In the present chapter, we will be concerned only with the radia-tive effects of atmospheric water vapor on climate, and with the kinematics of how the water vapor distribution is maintained. These effects are i...

realistic prediction of concrete shrinkage and creep requires the calculation of the distributions of relative humidity at various times. although the distributions of the relative humidity can be computed by numerical methods from the differential equation for diffusion, simple prediction formulas can facilitate structural analysis. the purpose of this paper is to present a simple formula for ...

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The sensitivity of free-tropospheric relative humidity to cloud microphysics and dynamics is explored using a simple 2-D humidity model and various configurations of the NCAR CAM3 Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM). In one configuration the imposed surface temperatures and radiative perturbations effectively eliminated the Hadley and Walker circulations and the main westerly jet, crea...

A review of the health effects of relative humidity in indoor environments suggests that relative humidity can affect the incidence of respiratory infections and allergies. Experimental studies on airborne-transmitted infectious bacteria and viruses have shown that the survival or infectivity of these organisms is minimized by exposure to relative humidities between 40 and 70%. Nine epidemiolog...