Diurnal variation of UTH
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Diurnal variation of upper tropospheric humidity and its relations to convective activities over tropical Africa E. S. Chung, B. J. Sohn, J. Schmetz, and M. Koenig School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany Received: 20 October 2006 – Accepted: 19 December 2006 – Published: 10 January 2007 Correspondence to: B. J. Sohn ([email protected])
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