Variability of TTL residence time
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Variability of residence time in the Tropical Tropopause Layer during Northern Hemisphere winter K. Krüger, S. Tegtmeier, and M. Rex Leibniz-Institute for Marine Sciences at Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany Received: 18 April 2009 – Accepted: 15 May 2009 – Published: 28 May 2009 Correspondence to: K. Krüger ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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