TY - JOUR
TI - Tropical temperature altitude amplification in the hiatus period (1998-2012)
AU - Ducić Vladan
AU - Milovanović Boško M
AU - Stanojević Gorica B
AU - Milenković Milan
AU - Ćurčić Nina B
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 12
SP - 371
EP - 379
PT - Article
AB - In the period 1998-2012 there was a stagnation in temperature rise, despite  the GHGs radiation forcing is increased (hiatus period). According to Global  Circulation Models simulations, expected response on the rise of GHGs forcing  is tropical temperature altitude amplification - temperature increases faster  in higher troposphere than in lower troposphere. In this paper, two satellite  data sets, UAH MSU and RSS, were used to test altitude temperature  amplification in tropic (20°N-20°S) in the hiatus period. We compared data  from satellite data sets from lower troposphere (TLT) and middle troposphere  (TMT) in general and particularly for land and ocean (for UAH MSU). The  results from both satellite measurements showed the presence of hiatus, i.e.  slowdown of the temperature rise in the period 1998-2012 compared to period  1979-2012 (UAH MSU) and temperature fall for RSS data. Smaller increase, i.e.  temperature fall over ocean showed that hiatus is an ocean phenomenon above  all. Data for UAH MSU showed that temperature altitude amplification in  tropic was not present either for period 1979-2012, or 1998-2012. RSS data  set also do not show temperature altitude amplification either for longer  (1979-2012), or for shorter period (1998-2012). RSS data for successive  15-year periods from 1979-1993 till 1998-2012 does not show tropical  temperature altitude amplification and in one case negative trend is  registered in TLT and in two cases in TMT. In general, our results do not  show presence of temperature altitude amplification in tropic in the hiatus  period. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. III47007]