A 1-year long δ18O record of water vapor in Niamey (Niger) reveals insightful atmospheric processes at different timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Tremoy, Guillaume ^a   Vimeux, Françoise ^a,b   Mayaki, Salla ^c   Souley, Ide ^c   Cattani, Olivier ^a   Risi, Camille ^d   Favreau, Guillaume ^b   Oi, Monique ^b  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROUGHT; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; BAROCLINIC WAVES; CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPIES; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DENSITY CURRENTS; TELECONNECTIONS; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; MIXING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TIMESCALE; WATER VAPOR; WAVELENGTH;

NIAMEY [NIGER]; NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84860156172     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051298     Document Type: Article

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