Evidence of lightning NOx and convective transport of pollutants in satellite observations over North America

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Choi, Yunsoo ^a   Wang, Yuhang ^a   Zeng, Tao ^a   Martin, Randall V ^b   Kurosu, Thomas P ^c   Chance, Kelly ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; SATELLITES;

CONVECTIVE DOWNDRAFTS; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT; REGIONAL CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; LIGHTNING; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 16344369423     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021436     Document Type: Article

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