Widespread tropical atmospheric drying from 1979 to 1995

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1301-1304

  Schroeder, Steven R ^a   McGuirk, James P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS; WATER;

INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONE (SPCZ); TROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC DRYING;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE; INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; WATER VAPOUR;

PACIFIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0032056429     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01029     Document Type: Article

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