Large upper tropospheric ozone enhancements above midlatitude North America during summer: In situ evidence from the IONS and MOZAIC ozone measurement network

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Cooper, Owen R ^a,b   Stohl, A ^c   Trainer, M ^b   Thompson, A M ^d   Witte, J C ^e   Oltmans, S J ^b   Morris, G ^f   Pickering, K E ^e   Crawford, J H ^g   Chen, G ^g   Cohen, R C ^h   Bertram, T H ^h   Wooldridge, P ^h   Perring, A ^h   Brune, W H ^d   Merrill, J ⁱ   Moody, J L ^j   Tarasick, D ^k   Nedelec P ^l   Forbes, G ^k   Newchurch, M J ^m   Schmidlin, F J ^e   Johnson, B J ^b   Turquety, S ⁿ   Baughcum, S L ^o   Ren, X ^d   Fehsenfeld, F J ^b   Meagher, J F ^b   Spichtinger, N ^p   Brown, C C ^g   McKeen, S A ^a,b   McDermid, I S ^q   Leblanc, T ^q   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^k ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^l CNRS   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

ⁿ INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^o BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^p TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^q CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIDAR; LIGHTNING; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; OZONESONDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TROPOSPHERE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250163780     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007306     Document Type: Article

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