The dry stratosphere: A limit on cometary water influx

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1649-1652

  Hannegan, B ^a   Olsen, S ^a   Prather, M ^a   Zhu, X ^a   Rind, D ^b   Lerner, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOR IMPACTS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER;

EFFECTIVE AGE; MEASUREMENTS OF; WATER INFLUX;

IONOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

COMETARY WATER INFLUX; MESOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE;

COMET WATER; DRY STRATOSPHERE; WATER INFLUX;

EID: 0032523629     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01229     Document Type: Article

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