A reexamination of the 'stratospheric fountain' hypothesis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4165-4168

  Dessler, A E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MIXING RATIO; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CLOUDS; FOUNTAINS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER;

TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; VOLUME MIXING RATIOS;

WATER VAPOR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; STRATOSPHERIC FOUNTAIN THEORY;

EID: 0032534206     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900120     Document Type: Article

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