Upper-Tropospheric Water-Vapor Profiles Steepen With Sea Surface Temperature and Turn Near 303 K Over Tropical Oceans
Upper-tropospheric water vapor strongly influences tropical longwave cooling, but many observational benchmarks do not test how moisture is partitioned vertically. This study evaluates whether the contrast between two upper-tropospheric layers changes systematically with local sea-surface temperature (SST). Aura Microw...