Tropopause referenced ozone climatology and inter-annual variability (1994-2003) from the MOZAIC programme

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1033-1051

  Thouret, V ^a   Cammas, J P ^a   Sauvage, B ^a   Athier, G ^a   Zbinden, R ^a   Nedelec P ^a   Simon, P ^b   Karcher, F ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OZONE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 33646493316     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-1033-2006     Document Type: Article

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