Strong influence of lowermost stratospheric ozone on lower tropospheric background ozone changes over Europe

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Ordonez C ^a,b   Brunner, D ^c   Staehelin, J ^d   Hadjinicolaou, P ^e,f,g   Pyle, J A ^e   Jonas, M ^h   Wernli, H ^h   Prévot, Andre S H ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g Frederick Institute of Technology Nicosia   (Cyprus)

^h JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; OZONE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ANOMALIES; CHLORINE LOADING; CROSS-TROPOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHLORINE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSPORT; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34250726089     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029113     Document Type: Article

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