The impact of overshooting deep convection on local transport and mixing in the tropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6467-6486

  Frey, W ^a,f   Schofield, R ^a   Hoor, P ^b   Kunkel, D ^b   Ravegnani, F ^c   Ulanovsky, A ^d   Viciani, S ^e   D'Amato, F ^e   Lane, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^d CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DEHYDRATION; ENTRAINMENT; MIXING; STRATOSPHERE; TRACER; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84935868497     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-6467-2015     Document Type: Article

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