Recent divergences in stratospheric water vapor measurements by frost point hygrometers and the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4447-4457

  Hurst, Dale F ^a,b   Read, William G ^c   Vömel, Holger ^d   Selkirk, Henry B ^e,f   Rosenlof, Karen H ^b   Davis, Sean M ^a,b   Hall, Emrys G ^a,b   Jordan, Allen F ^a,b   Oltmans, Samuel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOON OBSERVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH RATE; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

BOULDER; BRANDENBURG [GERMANY]; COLORADO; COSTA RICA; GERMANY; HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HILO; LAUDER; LINDENBERG; NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84986268131     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-4447-2016     Document Type: Article

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