Diurnal variations of humidity and ice water content in the tropical upper troposphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 11519-11533

  Eriksson, P ^a   Rydberg, B ^a   Johnston, M ^a   Murtagh, D P ^a   Struthers, H ^b   Ferrachat, S ^c   Lohmann, U ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUDSAT; DIURNAL VARIATION; HUMIDITY; ICE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER CONTENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 78651484655     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-11519-2010     Document Type: Article

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