Dehydration in the northern hemisphere mid-latitude tropopause region observed during STREAM 1998

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 206-217

  Khosrawi, Farahnaz ^a,b   Müller, Rolf ^a   Beuermann, Jürgen ^a   Konopka, Paul ^a   Schiller, Cornelius ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; ICE; JET STREAM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SIMULATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; TIMMINS;

EID: 33745056708     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2006.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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