Seasonal changes in the transport of pollutants into the Arctic troposphere-model study

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Klonecki, A ^a   Hess, P ^a   Emmons, L ^a   Smith, L ^a   Orlando, J ^a   Blake, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic haze; Arctic pollution; Isentropic transport; Tropospheric transport

Indexed keywords

HAZE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 1642439952     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002199     Document Type: Article

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