Abstract
AbstractWater vapor in the Arctic can be attributed to local evaporation and transport from mid‐latitudes. Here we investigate the response of Arctic water vapor to declining sea ice in a climate model, using an idealized warming scenario in which the Arctic becomes ice free year‐round. We find distinct monthly patterns in water vapor change with warming, with a strong influence of sea ice loss on changes to evaporation, except in summer when transports dominate. Before the Arctic becomes ice‐free, total column water increases at a rate slower than that indicated by the Clausius‐Clapeyron relationship; once ice‐free, total column water increases at a rate equal to Clausius‐Clapeyron. The exception is summer when the increase is initially faster then becomes slower when ice‐free. The boundary layer structure changes, under global warming, from stratified to well mixed in all seasons except summer, which remains largely unchanged throughout the ice‐free transition.
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geophysics
Cited by
4 articles.
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