Oxygen isotope anomaly observed in water vapor from Alert, Canada and the implication for the stratosphere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 15608-15613

  Lin, Ying ^a,b   Clayton, Robert N ^b,c   Huang, Lin ^d   Nakamura, Noboru ^b   Lyons, James R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Non mass dependent (NMD) fractionation; Stratosphere troposphere transport (STT)

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SEA WATER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; FRANCE; GLACIER; MOISTURE; OZONE LAYER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84884625379     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313014110     Document Type: Article

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