Water Vapour Increasingly Warming High Altitude Himalayas
A recent study conducted by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, has shown that water vapour exhibits a positive radiative effect at the top of the atmosphere, suggesting an increase in overall warming in the high altitude Himalayas due to it.
Context
- Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV): It is one of the most rapidly varying components in the atmosphere and is mainly accumulated in the lower troposphere.
- Due to the large variability in space and time, mixing processes and contribution to a series of heterogeneous chemical reactions, as well as sparse measurement networks, especially in the Himalayan region, it is ....
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