Articles | Volume 12, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11505-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11505-2012
Research article
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04 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 04 Dec 2012

Variability in upwelling across the tropical tropopause and correlations with tracers in the lower stratosphere

M. Abalos, W. J. Randel, and E. Serrano

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