Water vapor in Asian summer monsoon region
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Intraseasonal variations of upper tropospheric water vapor in Asian monsoon region R. Zhan, J. Li, and A. Gettelman State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA Received: 23 May 2006 – Accepted: 7 July 2006 – Published: 24 August 2006 Correspondence to: J. Li ([email protected])
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