Comparison of Canadian air quality forecast models with tropospheric ozone profile measurements above midlatitude North American during the IONS/ICARTT campaign: Evidence for stratospheric input

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Tarasick, David W ^a   Moran, M D ^a   Thompson, Anne M ^b   Carey Smith, T ^a   Rochon, Y ^a   Bouchet, V S ^a   Gong, W ^a   Makar, P A ^a   Stroud, C ^a   Menard S ^a   Crevier, L P ^a   Cousineau, S ^a   Pudykiewicz, J A ^a   Kallaur, A ^a   Moffet, R ^a   Menard R ^a   Robichaud, A ^a   Cooper, Owen R ^c   Oltmans, Samuel J ^d   Witte, Jacquelyn C ^e   Forbes, Gerry ^a   Johnson, B J ^d   Merrill, J ^f   Moody, J L ^g   Morris, G ^h   Newchurch, Michael J ⁱ   Schmidlin, F J ^e   Joseph, Everette ^j   more..

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^j HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BALLOON OBSERVATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; LIGHTNING; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE; OZONESONDE; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547780764     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007782     Document Type: Article

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