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dc.contributor.authorMcKim, B
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T08:57:33Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-20
dc.date.updated2024-05-17T08:41:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe ways in which clouds, circulation, and climate sensitivity interact are grand challenges of climate science. All of these phenomena depend on water vapor's condensable nature and strong radiative absorption. In this thesis, we take up the premise that a closer study of water vapor may provide a master key for unlocking how clouds, circulation, and climate sensitivity interact. We begin with simple models of tropical climate, water vapor's thermospectric properties, and the water vapor feedback (Chapter 1), then pursue an understanding of how thermospectric properties interact with the general circulation and climate stability in the form of subtropical radiator fins (Chapter 2) and how these properties can constrain the general circulation in the form of the radiative tropopause (Chapter 4). We use this understanding to constrain the anvil cloud area feedback (Chapter 3), a longstanding source of uncertainty in estimating climate sensitivity.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/135975
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.subjectclimateen_GB
dc.subjectcloudsen_GB
dc.subjectclimate changeen_GB
dc.subjecttropopauseen_GB
dc.subjectphysicsen_GB
dc.titleIris effects, radiator fins, and the tropopauseen_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2024-05-20T08:57:33Z
dc.contributor.advisorVallis, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.advisorJeevanjee, Nadir
dc.contributor.advisorThomson, Stephen
dc.publisher.departmentMathematics
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePhD in Mathematics
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctoral Thesis
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2024-05-20
rioxxterms.typeThesisen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2024-05-20T08:57:46Z


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