Trends in middle- and upper-level tropospheric humidity from NCEP reanalysis data

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 351-359

  Paltridge, Garth ^a   Arking, Albert ^b   Pook, Michael ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; PRESSURE EFFECT; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 69949084276     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0117-x     Document Type: Article

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