When Dry Air Is Too Humid
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 314 (5804), 1399-1402
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1135199
Abstract
Analyses of upper tropospheric humidity are forcing reassessment of how ice clouds form.Keywords
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