FAT or FiTT: Are Anvil Clouds or the Tropopause Temperature Invariant?

Abstract The Fixed Anvil Temperature (FAT) hypothesis proposes that upper tropospheric cloud fraction peaks at a special isotherm that is independent of surface temperature. It has been argued that a FAT should result from simple ingredients: Clausius‐Clapeyron, longwave emission from water vapor, a...

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Main Authors: Jacob T. Seeley, Nadir Jeevanjee, David M. Romps
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-02-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080096
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