Chemical and dynamical contributions to ozone profile trends of the Payerne (Switzerland) balloon soundings

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 106, Issue D19, 2001, Pages 22685-22694

  Weiss, Andrea K ^a,d   Staehelin, Johannes ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^b   Harris, Neil R P ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BALLOON OBSERVATION; OZONE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

PAYERNE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034754705     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD000106     Document Type: Article

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