Troposphere-to-stratosphere transport in the tropics

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 331-338

  Pommereau, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Convection; Tropics; Tropopause; Vertical transport

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PROCESS; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BALLOON OBSERVATION; CALIPSO; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; UPDRAFT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 77951622210     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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