Dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer estimated from the water vapor match

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 8623-8642

  Inai, Y ^a,c   Hasebe, F ^b   Fujiwara, M ^b   Shiotani, M ^c   Nishi, N ^d,i   Ogino, S Y ^e   Vomel H ^f   Iwasaki, S ^g   Shibata, T ^h  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^h NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DEHYDRATION; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; SATURATION; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84883534040     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-8623-2013     Document Type: Article

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