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Kuhn et al. 1976
Kuhn, P.M., Magaziner, E. and Stearns, L.P. (1976). Stratospheric areal distribution of water vapor burden and the jet stream. Geophysical Research Letters 3: doi: 10.1029/GL003i009p00529. issn: 0094-8276.

Radiometrically inferred areal observations of the atmospheric water vapor burden have been made in the 270 to 520 cm-1 spectral band over western U.S. and the extreme eastern Pacific from the NASA C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Before this very few observations from the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over such a broad area have been made. 30600 individual observations from eight separate synoptic situations involving eight jet maxima were computer-averaged over 2¿ latitude¿2¿ longitude boxes and related to the polar continental jet. Mean water vapor burdens ranged from 4.6¿10-4 g cm-2 to 14.3¿10-4 g cm-2 at 13.4 km with a striking peak just north of the jet wind maximum over a region of strong upward vertical motion.

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