On the pathways and timescales of intercontinental air pollution transport

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue D23, 2002, Pages

  Stohl, Andreas ^a   Eckhardt, Sabine ^a   Forster, Caroline ^a   James, Paul ^a   Spichtinger, Nicole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

0322 atmospheric composition and structure: Constituent sources and sinks; 0368 atmospheric composition and structure: Troposphere constituent transport and chemistry; 3309 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3364 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Synoptic scale meteorology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042034049     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001396     Document Type: Article

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