Late-spring increase of trans-Pacific pollution transport in the upper troposhere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Yuhang ^a   Choi, Yunsoo ^a   Zeng, Tao ^a   Ridley, Brian ^b   Blake, Nicola ^c   Blake, Donald ^c   Flocke, Frank ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOOXIDATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

GLOBAL CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33644612335     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024975     Document Type: Article

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