Transport of ozone towards the Alps - Results from trajectory analyses and photochemical model studies

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1367-1377

  Wotawa, G ^a   Kroger H ^a   Stohl, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Box models; Lagrangian transport; Ozone; Photochemistry; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOX MODELS; TRAJECTORY SOURCE ANALYSES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TRAJECTORY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; EASTERN EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; ITALY; MODEL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033627120     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00363-5     Document Type: Article

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