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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5243-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5243-2024
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06 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 06 Sep 2024

Assessing the potential of free-tropospheric water vapour isotopologue satellite observations for improving the analyses of convective events

Matthias Schneider, Kinya Toride, Farahnaz Khosrawi, Frank Hase, Benjamin Ertl, Christopher J. Diekmann, and Kei Yoshimura

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Despite its importance for extreme weather and climate feedbacks, atmospheric convection is not well constrained. This study assesses the potential of novel tropospheric water vapour isotopologue satellite observations for improving the analyses of convective events. We find that the impact of the isotopologues is small for stable atmospheric conditions but significant for unstable conditions, which have the strongest societal impacts (e.g. storms and flooding).
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