Deep convective injection
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Deep convective injection of boundary layer air into the lowermost stratosphere at midlatitudes H. Fischer, M. de Reus, M. Traub, J. Williams, J. Lelieveld, J. de Gouw, C. Warneke, H. Schlager, A. Minikin, R. Scheele, and P. Siegmund Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany CIRES and NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA Institute for Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany KNMI, de Bilt, The Netherlands Received: 30 August 2002 – Accepted: 25 October 2002 – Published: 11 November 2002 Correspondence to: H. Fischer ([email protected])
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