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tropical moisture exports: a standalone construct

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episodes of intense poleward water vapor transport out of the tropics, identified with trajectories, that feed heavy extratropical precipitation.

In atmospheric science, tropical moisture exports refers to episodes of intense poleward water vapor transport out of the tropics, identified with trajectories, that feed heavy extratropical precipitation. This meaning comes from Knippertz (2010) in Journal of Climate.[1]

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Knippertz, P., & Wernli, H. (2010). A Lagrangian Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports to the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics. Journal of Climate, 23(4), 987-1003. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009jcli3333.1

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