Articles | Volume 13, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7903-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7903-2013
Research article
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16 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 16 Aug 2013

Modelling and interpreting the isotopic composition of water vapour in convective updrafts

M. Bolot, B. Legras, and E. J. Moyer

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