Meridional ozone gradients in the African upper troposphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Sauvage, B ^a,b   Thouret, V ^a   Cammas, J P ^a   Brioude, J ^a   Nedelec P ^a   Mari, C ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LIGHTNING; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

HADLEY CIRCULATION; INTER-TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL OZONE GRADIENTS; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

TROPOSPHERE;

HADLEY CELL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

AFRICA;

EID: 33847226196     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028542     Document Type: Article

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