Tropical Deep Convection and Ozone Formation

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1043-1054

  Thompson, Anne M ^a,b   Tao, Wei Kuo ^a   Pickering, Kenneth E ^b   Scala, John R ^c   Simpson, Joanne ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DEEP CONVECTION; OZONE FORMATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031451091     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<1043:TDCAOF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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