The global distribution of supersaturation in the upper troposphere from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6089-6103

  Gettelman, Andrew ^a   Fetzer, Eric J ^b   Eldering, Annmarie ^b   Irion, Fredrick W ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; SUPERSATURATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 33746219794     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3955.1     Document Type: Article

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