Ozone, temperature, and wind field measurements in a tropopause fold: Comparison with a mesoscale model simulation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2641-2653

  Ravetta, F ^a,c   Ancellet, G ^a   Kowol Santen, J ^b   Wilson, R ^a   Nedeljkovic, D ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Inst fur Geophys und Meteorol   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLDING; OZONE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOPAUSE; WIND;

EID: 0033393135     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2641:OTAWFM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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