Ozone-rich transients in the upper equatorial atlantic troposphere

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6643, 1997, Pages 661-663

  Suhre, K ^a   Gammas, J P ^a   Nedelec, P ^a   Rosset, R ^a   Marenco, A ^a   Smitt, H G J ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATROPICAL STRATOSPHERE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OZONE MIXING RATIOS;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; EVAPORATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEATING; MASS TRANSFER; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR POLLUTION;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; OZONE; TRANSPORT; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GAS MIXING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0031214442     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41749     Document Type: Article

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