Comparison of satellite UTH climatologies
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Comparison of satellite limb-sounding humidity climatologies of the uppermost tropical troposphere M. Ekström, P. Eriksson, W. G. Read, and D. P. Murtagh Department of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Received: 17 July 2007 – Accepted: 27 August 2007 – Published: 28 August 2007 Correspondence to: M. Ekström ([email protected])
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