Enhanced O3 and NO2 in thunderstorm clouds: Convection or production?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1291-1294

  Winterrath, Tanja ^a,b   Kurosu, Thomas P ^a,c   Richter, Andreas ^a   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHTNING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THUNDERSTORMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHTNING DISCHARGE; LIGHTNING PROCESS; MEASUREMENTS OF; OPTICAL THICKNESS; OZONE PRODUCTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; THUNDERSTORM CLOUDS;

NITROGEN OXIDES; CLOUDS;

DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; SLANT OPTICAL THICKNESS; THUNDERSTORM CLOUDS;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OPTICAL DEPTH; OZONE; THUNDERCLOUD; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 0033134087     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900243     Document Type: Article

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