Increases in middle atmospheric water vapour as observed by the Halogen Occultation Experiment and the ground-based water vapor millimeter-wave spectrometer from 1991 to 1997

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 103, Issue D3, 1998, Pages 3531-3543

  Nedoluha, Gerald E ^a   Bevilacqua, Richard M ^a   Gomez, R Michael ^a   Siskind, David E ^a   Hicks, Brian C ^a   Russell III, James M ^b   Connor, Brian J ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOUR;

CALIFORNIA; LAUDER; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; TABLE MOUNTAIN; USA;

EID: 0032548775     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JD03282     Document Type: Article

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