Elevated ozone in the troposphere over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the Northern Hemisphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Chandra, S ^a,b   Ziemke, J R ^a,b   Tie, Xuexi ^c   Brasseur, Guy ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

0322 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Constituent sources and sinks; 0365 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere Composition and chemistry; 0368 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere Constituent transport and chemistry; 3362 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions; 3367 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Theoretical modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS FUELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTROMETERS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

BIOFUELS; MICRWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); STRATOSPHERIC COLUMN OZONE (SCO); TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETERS (TOMS); TROPOSPHERIC COLUMN OZONE (TCO); UPPDER ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH SATELLITE (UARS);

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 16644373690     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020821     Document Type: Article

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