An unusual springtime ozone episode at high elevation in the Swiss Alps: Contributions both from cross-tropopause exchange and from the boundary layer

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1735-1744

  Schuepbach, Evi ^a,c   Davies, Trevor D ^a   Massacand, Alexia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine Lee Cyclogenesis; Cut off low; Numerical simulation; Spring ozone maximum; Tropopause fold

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BACK-TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CROSS-TROPOPAUSE EXCHANGE;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; OZONE; SPRING (SEASON); TROPOPAUSE;

AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; METEOROLOGY; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0033136559     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00232-5     Document Type: Article

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