Ten-year climatological features and air origin of midlatitude double tropopauses

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1592-1602

  Wu, Xue ^a   Lü, Daren ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

double tropopause; stratosphere troposphere exchange; trajectory model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944447403     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-015-5036-4     Document Type: Article

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