Meridional Distribution of Specific Humidity in the Runaway Greenhouse State (Animation)
Animation 1 below illustrates the time evolution of the zonal
mean specific humidity distribution in the troposphere. As the water
vapor content increases across the globe, the meridional water vapor
content difference decreases. After Day 400, an increase in the
water vapor content is evident in the polar regions. This increase
can probably be explained by the phenomenon that water vapor that
originated from evaporation of liquid water around 30° latitude
north and south is transported to high latitudes and accumulates in
the polar regions.
Animation 1: Time evolution of the meridional
specific humidity distribution (kg/kg) in Experiment S1800.
