Discrimination of air masses near the extratropical tropopause by multivariate analyses from MOZAIC data

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1123-1135

  Borchi, François ^a   Marenco, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cluster analyses; Cut off low; Discriminant analyses; Principal component analysis; Stratosphere troposphere exchange

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT CONVECTION; OZONE;

EXTRATROPICAL TROPOPAUSE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR MASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPOPAUSE;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; MASS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OZONE LAYER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0036174706     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(01)00576-3     Document Type: Article

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