Stepwise changes in stratospheric water vapor?

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Fueglistaler, S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DROPS; METHANE; MIXING; VAPORS;

AGE OF AIR; GLOBAL COVERAGE; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; LARGE EDDY; LONG-TERM TREND; MIXING RATIOS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MT. PINATUBO; SELF-CONSISTENCY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPARSE DATA; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE;

TROPICS;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; LONG-TERM CHANGE; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; MODEL VALIDATION; STRATOSPHERE; TIME SERIES; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

PINATUBO;

EID: 84864062039     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017582     Document Type: Article

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