Antarctic low-tropospheric humidity inversions: 10-yr climatology

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5196-5204

  Nygård, Tiina ^a   Valkonen, Teresa ^a   Vihma, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; HUMIDITY INVERSIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; WATER VAPOR CONTENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOSONDES; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HUMIDITY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84880695550     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00671.1     Document Type: Article

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