Fig. 3: Compensation between effects of the lapse-rate and water-vapor feedbacks on Arctic Amplification (AA).
From: An analytic theory for the degree of Arctic Amplification
a The vertical profile of the change in air temperature for the globe (red) and the Arctic (blue). b The vertical profile of the fractional change in specific humidity for the globe (red) and the Arctic (blue). In (a and b), the solid lines show the mean of the model ensemble (MME) and the dashed lines show the mean of five models with more negative lapse-rate feedback. c Intermodel scatterplot between the lapse-rate feedback (\({\lambda }_{{LP}}\)) and the water-vapor feedback (\({\lambda }_{{WV}}\)) in the globe (red) and the Arctic (blue). The mean and s.d. of \({\lambda }_{{LP}}\), \({\lambda }_{{WV}}\), \({\lambda }_{{LP}}+{\lambda }_{{WV}}\), and the intermodel correlation between \({\lambda }_{{LP}}\) and \({\lambda }_{{WV}}\) are listed for the globe and the Arctic. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
