Seasonal to decadal variations of water vapor in the tropical lower stratosphere observed with balloon-borne cryogenic frost point hygrometers

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Fujiwara, M ^a   Vmel, H ^b   Hasebe, F ^a   Shiotani, M ^c   Ogino, S Y ^d   Iwasaki, S ^e   Nishi, N ^f   Shibata, T ^g   Shimizu, K ^a,h   Nishimoto, E ^c   Valverde Canossa, J M ⁱ   Selkirk, H B ^j   Oltmans, S J ^k  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Meisei Electric Co Ltd   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; HYGROMETERS; MOISTURE METERS; OZONE; TIME SERIES; TROPICS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

ASCENT RATE; AVERAGE PROFILES; CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC EXPERIMENTS; CONCENTRATION VARIATION; COSTA RICA; DECADAL TIMESCALE; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; FROST POINT; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MIXING RATIOS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE SENSORS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WATER VAPOR PROFILE; WATER VAPOR VARIATIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

WATER VAPOR;

HALOGEN; LINEARITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE SENSOR; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

COSTA RICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 77957595366     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014179     Document Type: Article

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