The global distribution of ice-supersaturated regions as seen by the Microwave Limb Sounder

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 595 PART B, 2003, Pages 3391-3410

  Spichtinger, Peter ^a   Gierens, Klaus ^a   Read, William ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure; Cirrus clouds; Relative humidity

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA REDUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ICE; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

SUBSATURATED AIR MASSES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CIRRUS; ICE CRYSTAL; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUPERSATURATION;

EID: 0347542231     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.141     Document Type: Article

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