Intraseasonal variations of the tropical total ozone and their connection to the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Tian, Baijun ^a   Yung, Y L ^b   Waliser, D E ^a   Tyranowski, T ^b,c   Kuai, L ^b   Fetzer, E J ^a   Irion, F W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; INTRASEASONAL VARIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION;

OZONE;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TOTAL OZONE; TROPOPAUSE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 34250739828     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029451     Document Type: Article

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