Cirrus and troposphere-to-stratosphere transport
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The impact of cirrus clouds on tropical troposphere-to-stratosphere transport T. Corti, B. P. Luo, Q. Fu, H. Vömel, and T. Peter Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Received: 7 December 2005 – Accepted: 23 January 2006 – Published: 9 March 2006 Correspondence to: T. Corti ([email protected])
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