Measured HDO/H2O ratios across the tropical tropopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Kuang, Zhiming ^a   Toon, Geoffrey C ^b   Wennberg, Paul O ^a   Yung, Yuk L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

LOWER STRATOSPHERE (LS); ATMOSPHERIC TRACE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPIES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

TROPOSPHERE; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; WATER;

EID: 0141762403     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017023     Document Type: Article

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