Florian Römer about his Paper on Water Vapour Feedback
18 December 2023
On a warmer Earth due to climate change, more water vapour evaporates into the atmosphere. This water vapour acts as a greenhouse gas and thus changes the thermal radiation of the atmosphere into space, which in turn affects the temperature down on Earth. Florian Römer, a doctoral student at the Meteorological Institute of Universität Hamburg, and his colleagues have investigated how this important feedback in the climate system works, with respect to individual wavelengths of the thermal radiation. In his paper “Direct observation of Earth's spectral long-wave feedback parameter”, he describes how the strength of this feedback can be derived from satellite measurements. In this video he talks about his work on this study.
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This video is the third episode of our (M)et al. video series presenting scientists from the Meteorological Institute reporting on their current papers and thus offering an insight into our research topics and working methods.
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01175-6