First in situ evidence for coexisting submeter temperature and humidity sheets in the lower free troposphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2893-2906

  Muschinski, Andreas ^a,b   Wode, Christian ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032455019     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<2893:FISEFC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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