The relation between atmospheric humidity and temperature trends for stratospheric water

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1052-1074

  Fueglistaler, S ^a   Liu, Y S ^b   Flannaghan, T J ^c   Haynes, P H ^c   Dee, D P ^d   Read, W J ^e   Remsberg, E E ^f   Thomason, L W ^f   Hurst, D F ^g,h   Lanzante, J R ⁱ   Bernath, P F ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; METHANE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATION; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER;

CLIMATE MODELS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84884737401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50157     Document Type: Article

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