Effects of 1997-1998 El Niño on tropospheric ozone and water vapor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3867-3870

  Chandra, S ^a   Ziemke, J R ^b   Min, W ^c,e   Read, W G ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Software Corporation of America   (United States)

^c General Science Corporation   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FIRES; NICKEL; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WIND EFFECTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOW PATTERNS; GLOBAL WARMING; VAPORS;

GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; TROPICAL CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITES; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

CONVECTION PATTERN; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0032181319     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02695     Document Type: Article

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