Transport of water vapor in the tropical tropopause layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-1-9-4

  Gettelman, A ^a   Randel, W J ^a   Wu, F ^a   Massie, S T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; ICE; NATURAL CONVECTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

TROPOPAUSE LAYER;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CIRRUS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0036194581     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013818     Document Type: Article

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