Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1789-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1789-2015
Research article
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17 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 17 Apr 2015

On the comparisons of tropical relative humidity in the lower and middle troposphere among COSMIC radio occultations and MERRA and ECMWF data sets

P. Vergados, A. J. Mannucci, C. O. Ao, J. H. Jiang, and H. Su

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