NASA NTRS · 19930040389
Tropospheric rivers? A pilot study
Abstract
Computations of daily global tropospheric water vapor flux values show the presence of a filamentary structure. The filaments, here called rivers, have lengths many times their widths and persist for many days while being translated through the atmosphere. They are present in data analyzed for both 1981 and 1991. The water vapor flux maxima coincide quite closely to reflectivity features (averaged from wavelengths of 380 and 360 nm) as revealed by the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS). It is suggested that the filamentary structure may also be present in other trace constituents.
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Newell, Reginald E., Newell, Nicholas E., Zhu, Yong, Scott, Courtney. 1992-12-24. Tropospheric rivers? A pilot study. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930040389
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