The recycling rate of atmospheric moisture over the past two decades (1988-2009)

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Li, Liming ^a   Jiang, Xun ^a   Chahine, Moustafa T ^b   Olsen, Edward T ^b   Fetzer, Eric J ^b   Chen, Luke ^b   Yung, Yuk L ^c  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrological cycle; precipitation; recycling rate; water vapor

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053543387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034018     Document Type: Article

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