A preview on the determination of mass return flow of air and water vapour into the stratosphere using tritium as a tracer

R. Michael Smith

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v20i1.9921

A preview on the determination of mass return flow of air and water vapour into the stratosphere using tritium as a tracer

Tellus

Volume 20 (1968): Issue 1

By: R. Michael Smith

Open Access

|Jan 1968

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