Weekly cycles of air pollutants, precipitation and tropical cyclones in the coastal NW Atlantic region

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6693, 1998, Pages 561-563

  Cerveny, Randall S ^a   Balling Jr , Robert C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CYCLONE; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; HYPOTHESIS; OZONE LAYER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032490949     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29043     Document Type: Article

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