Trends in tropospheric humidity from 1970 to 2008 over china from a homogenized radiosonde dataset

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4549-4567

  Zhao, Tianbao ^a   Dai, Aiguo ^b   Wang, Junhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiosonde observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON EQUATIONS; DATA SETS; DEWPOINT; DIPOLE PATTERNS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; ENSO INDICES; GROUND BASED; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LARGE SHIFTS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN CHINA; NORTHWEST CHINA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIOSONDE DATAS; SMALL VARIATIONS; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; UPWARD TREND; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

DATA SET; DEW POINT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GPS; HOMOGENEITY; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA;

EID: 84865230060     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00557.1     Document Type: Article

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