Variability of the tropospheric mixing and of streamer formation and their impact on the lifetime of observed ozone layers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Colette, Augustin ^a   Ancellet, G ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE LAYER; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION COMPUTATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC INTRUSIONS; SUMMERTIME CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERIC MIXING; VARIABILITY;

TROPOSPHERE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 33745727383     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025793     Document Type: Article

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