Evidence of vertical transport of carbon monoxide from Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT)

Geophysical Research Letters

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

  Kar, Jayanta ^a   Bremer, Holger ^a,b   Drummond, James R ^a   Rochon, Yves J ^c   Jones, Dylan B A ^a   Nichitiu, Florian ^a   Zou, Jason ^a   Liu, Jane ^a   Gille, John C ^d   Edwards, David P ^d   Deeter, Merritt N ^d   Francis, Gene ^d   Ziskin, Dan ^d   Warner, Juying ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

0368 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere Constituent transport and chemistry; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing; 3362 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; THERMAL PLUMES; TROPOSPHERE;

BIOMASS BURNING; MOPITT MEASUREMENTS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE (UT); VERTICAL TRANSPORT PHENOMENA;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

EID: 20144386822     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021128     Document Type: Article

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