The nasa airborne tropical tropopause experiment: High-altitude aircraft measurements in the tropical western pacific

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 129-143

  Jensen, Eric J ^a   Pfister, Leonhard ^a   Jordan, David E ^a   Bui, Thaopaul V ^a   Ueyama, Rei ^a   Singh, Hanwant B ^a   Thornberry, Troy D ^b   Rollins, Andrew W ^b   Gao, Ru Shan ^c   Fahey, David W ^c   Rosenlof, Karen H ^c   Elkins, James W ^c   Diskin, Glenn S ^d   Digangi, Joshua P ^d   Lawson, R Paul ^e   Woods, Sarah ^e   Atlas, Elliot L ^f   Navarro Rodriguez, Maria A ^f   Wofsy, Steven C ^g   Pittman, Jasna ^g   Bardeen, Charles G ^h   Toon, Owen B ⁱ   Kindel, Bruce C ⁱ   Newman, Paul A ^j   McGill, Matthew J ^j   Hlavka, Dennis L ^k   Lait, Leslie R ^l   Schoeberl, Mark R ^m   Bergman, John W ⁿ   Selkirk, Henry B ^o   Alexander, M Joan ^p   Kim, Ji Eun ^p   Lim, Boon H ^q   Stutz, Jochen ^r   Pfeilsticker, Klaus ^s   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SPEC INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^l MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁿ BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^p Colorado Research Assoc Office ^*  (United States)

^q CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUDS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; NASA; TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUITS; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT; HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFTS; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC; WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENT;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 85011632669     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00263.1     Document Type: Article

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