Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14853-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14853-2017
Research article
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14 Dec 2017
Research article |  | 14 Dec 2017

Mountain waves modulate the water vapor distribution in the UTLS

Romy Heller, Christiane Voigt, Stuart Beaton, Andreas Dörnbrack, Andreas Giez, Stefan Kaufmann, Christian Mallaun, Hans Schlager, Johannes Wagner, Kate Young, and Markus Rapp

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