Surface measurements of upper tropospheric water vapor isotopic composition on the Chajnantor Plateau, Chile

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Galewsky, Joseph ^a   Rella, Christopher ^b   Sharp, Zachary ^a   Samuels, Kimberly ^a   Ward, Dylan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b PICARRO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CONDENSATION; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY; EARTH'S SURFACE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; REANALYSIS; SHALLOW CONVECTION; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

WATER VAPOR;

AIR MASS; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONDENSATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIXING RATIO; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLATEAU; REAL TIME; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERSATURATION; SURFACE WATER; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ANDES; CHILE;

EID: 80052486039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048557     Document Type: Article

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