Water vapor control at the tropopause by equatoria Kelvin waves observes over the Galápagos

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 3143-3146

  Fujiwara, M ^a   Hasebe, F ^a   Shiotani, M ^a   Nishi, N ^a   Vomel H ^a   Oltmans, S J ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITY WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HYGROMETERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVES;

DISPLACEMENT PHASE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TROPOPAUSE REGION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPWARD MOTION; WATER VAPOR CONTROL; WAVEBREAKING;

WATER VAPOR; VAPORS;

TROPOPAUSE;

DEHYDRATION; KELVIN WAVE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0035880498     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013310     Document Type: Article

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