Upper tropospheric water vapour variability at high latitudes - Part 1: Influence of the annular modes

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3265-3278

  Sioris, Christopher E ^a   Zou, Jason ^b   Plummer, David A ^c   Boone, Chris D ^d   McElroy, C Thomas ^a   Sheese, Patrick E ^b   Moeini, Omid ^a   Bernath, Peter F ^d,e  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; LATITUDE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84960984310     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-3265-2016     Document Type: Article

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