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Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5409-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5409-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
Research article
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02 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 02 Jun 2025

Water vapour isotopes over West Africa as observed from space: which processes control tropospheric H2O ∕ HDO pair distributions?

Christopher Johannes Diekmann, Matthias Schneider, Peter Knippertz, Tim Trent, Hartmut Boesch, Amelie Ninja Roehling, John Worden, Benjamin Ertl, Farahnaz Khosrawi, and Frank Hase

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The West African Monsoon is the main source of rainfall over West Africa, and understanding the development of the monsoon remains challenging due to complex interactions of atmospheric processes. We make use of new satellite datasets of isotopes in tropospheric water vapour to characterize processes controlling the monsoon convection. We find that comparing different water vapour isotopes reveals effects of rain–vapour interactions and air mass transport.
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