A conceptual model of the dehydration of air due to freeze-drying by optically thin, laminar cirrus rising slowly across the tropical tropopause

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 106, Issue D15, 2001, Pages 17237-17252

  Jensen, Eric J ^a   Pfister, Leonhard ^a   Ackerman, Andrew S ^a   Tabazadeh, Azadeh ^a   Toon, Owen B ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; DEHYDRATION; FREEZE DRYING; ICE CRYSTAL; NUCLEATION; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0034836287     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD900649     Document Type: Article

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