Mesoscale meteorological structure of a high-ozone episode during the 1995 NARSTO-Northeast study

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 384-398

  Seaman, Nelson L ^a   Michelson, Sara A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0034024292     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<0384:MMSOAH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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