What is causing high ozone at Summit, Greenland?

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 5031-5043

  Helmig, Detlev ^a   Oltmans, Samuel J ^b   Morse, Thomas O ^a   Dibb, Jack E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Snow photochemistry; Snowpack atmosphere gas exchange; Synoptic transport; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

OZONE SONDE DATA; POLAR REGIONS; SURFACE DATA; SYNOPTIC TRANSPORT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OZONE;

BERYLLIUM; BERYLLIUM 7; LEAD 210; OZONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GAS EXCHANGE; MIXING RATIO; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIONUCLIDE; SNOWPACK; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; GREENLAND; ISOTOPE LABELING; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; SUMMIT;

EID: 34447301003     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.05.084     Document Type: Article

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