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Joint variations of temperature and water vapor over the midlatitude continents
Author(s) -
Cripe Douglas G.,
Randall David A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2001gl012909
Subject(s) - depth sounding , middle latitudes , humidity , atmospheric temperature , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , climatology , water vapor , moisture , convection , atmospheric sounding , joint (building) , relative humidity , geology , meteorology , geography , architectural engineering , oceanography , engineering
We have used warm‐season data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program's Southern Great Plains site to investigate the joint variability of the temperature and moisture soundings, and their relationship to the variability of the generalized convective available potential energy (GCAPE). The actual temperature and humidity soundings vary together in such a way as to produce variations of the GCAPE which are far smaller than those which would occur if the relative humidity varied while the temperature sounding was fixed, or vice versa.