Understanding the Sahelian water budget through the isotopic composition of water vapor and precipitation
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Understanding the Sahelian water budget through the isotopic composition of water vapor and precipitation
[1] The goal of this paper is to investigate the added value of water isotopic measurements to estimate the relative influence of large‐scale dynamics, convection, and land surface recycling on the Sahelian water budget. To this aim, we use isotope data in the lower tropospheric water vapor measured by the SCIAMACHY and TES satellite instruments and in situ precipitation data from the Global Ne...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2010jd014690