Air-mass origin in the tropical lower stratosphere: The influence of Asian boundary layer air

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4240-4248

  Orbe, Clara ^a   Waugh, Darryn W ^b   Newman, Paul A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

asian monsoon; boundary layer origin; troposphere stratosphere transport

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; TROPICS;

AIR MASS FRACTION; ASIAN MONSOON; BOUNDARY LAYER AIR; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; EXTRATROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AIR MASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; EOS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA;

EID: 84931562793     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063937     Document Type: Article

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