La vapeur d’eau est un gaz a effet de serre puissant, qui absorbe les rayonnements de longueurs d’ondes élevées. Si la concentration atmosphérique en vapeur d’eau augmente a cause du réchauffement climatique, celle-ci va augmenter en retour l’effet de serre encore plus. Il est bien connu que le taux d’évaporation est lié a la température, et qu’une hausse des températures accroît la pression de la vapeur (équation de Clausius-Clapeyron). Ce processus est connu comme étant la rétroaction (positive) de la vapeur d’eau. Une différence importante entre la vapeur d’eau et les autres gaz a effet de serre comme le CO2 est que la vapeur d’eau ne passe qu’un temps très court dans l’atmosphère avant d’être précipité, alors que la temps de résidence du CO2 dans l’atmosphère peut dépasser une centaine d’années.
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About Rasmus Benestad
I am a senior scientist working at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute with a background from physics. My scientific career started with a degree in Physics with Electronics at UMIST in Manchester (UK), cloud micro-physics at New Mexico Tech (USA), and ocean physics at Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics (AOPP) at Oxford University (UK). Since then, I have also got heavily involved in the field of statistics, thanks to exciting collaborations with several statisticians.
My primary focus at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute has been towards climate change adaptation, empirical-statistical downscaling and anthropogenic climate change, but I have also worked on problems relating to natural climate variations connected to changes in the sun. I have authored two text books on these topics: Solar Activity and Earth's climate (Praxis/Springer) and Empirical-Statistical Downscaling (World Scientific Publishers).
My experience from the climate science community includes several roles: a contributing author on two past IPCC assessment reports, a person of contact (POC) for World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP) CORDEX project, a coordinating lead author on Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme's (AMAP) report Adapting Actions in a Changing Arctic (AACA, 2017), a councilor for the European Meteorological society (EMS), a member of the EMS communication and media committee, and part of the advisory board for Oxford Research Encyclopedia on climate. I also chair the professional network within the Norwegian trade union for engineer and natural scientists Tekna Klima, dealing with a diverse range of climate solutions.
