A climatological perspective of water vapor at the UTLS region over different global monsoon regions: Observations inferred from the Aura-MLS and reanalysis data

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 407-420

  Uma, K N ^a   Das, Subrata Kumar ^b   Das, Siddarth Shankar ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aura MLS; Monsoon; Stratospheric water vapor; UTLS

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; AURA (SATELLITE); CLIMATIC REGION; CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MONSOON; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84906085112     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2085-9     Document Type: Article

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