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SUBMITTER: Lovell-Smith JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4751591 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lovell-Smith J W JW Feistel R R Harvey A H AH Hellmuth O O Bell S A SA Heinonen M M Cooper J R JR
Metrologia 20160101 1
Water in its three ambient phases plays the central thermodynamic role in the terrestrial climate system. Clouds control Earth's radiation balance, atmospheric water vapour is the strongest "greenhouse" gas, and non-equilibrium relative humidity at the air-sea interface drives evaporation and latent heat export from the ocean. In this paper, we examine the climatologically relevant atmospheric relative humidity, noting fundamental deficiencies in the definition of this key observable. The metrol ...[more]