Modulation of middle and upper tropospheric ozone at Northern midlatitudes by the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2667-2670

  Langford, A O ^a   O'Leary, T J ^a,b   Mastersi, C D ^a,b   Aikin, K C ^a,b   Proffitt, M H ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; OZONE; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OSCILLATIONS; SOLAR RADIATION;

FREE TROPOSPHERE; LIDAR PROFILES; LOW FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; OZONE TRENDS; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL VARIANCE; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

CLIMATOLOGY; OZONE;

EL NINO; NORTHERN MIDLATITUDES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OZONE;

EID: 0032129115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01909     Document Type: Article

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