Relating tropical ocean clouds to moist processes using water vapor isotope measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 741-752

  Lee, J ^a   Worden, J ^a   Noone, D ^b   Bowman, K ^a   Eldering, A ^a   Legrande, A ^c   Li, J L F ^c   Schmidt, G ^c   Sodemann, H ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MIXING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79251511537     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-741-2011     Document Type: Article

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