Upper-tropospheric relative humidity observations and implications for cirrus ice nucleation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1343-1346

  Heymsfield, Andrew J ^a   Miloshevich, Larry M ^a   Twohy, Cynthia ^a   Sachse, Glen ^b   Oltmans, Samuel ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; ICE; NUCLEATION; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOSPHERE;

CIRRUS ICE NUCLEATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

CIRRUS; HUMIDITY; ICE; NUCLEATION;

EID: 0032076335     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01089     Document Type: Article

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