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Science 24 December 1971:
Vol. 174. no. 4016, pp. 1319 - 1321
DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4016.1319
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Water Vapor: Stratospheric Injection by Thunderstorms

P. M. Kuhn 1, M. S. Lojko 1, and E. V. Petersen 2

1 Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado
2 Airborne Science Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, California 94035

Infrared radiometric inference measurements of the mass of water vapor injected into the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere by a number of plains thunderstorms show an average threefold increase over the fair weather background mass of water vapor. These airborne measurements, made from the National Aeronautics and Space Admninistration Convair 990 jet laboratory, extended over a sample size much larger than that possible by balloon and other techniques.

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