A visualization of the global dynamic tropopause

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1151-1167

  Nielsen Gammon, John W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0012780906     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<1151:AVOTGD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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