Establishing Lagrangian connections between observations within air masses crossing the Atlantic during the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation experiment

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Methven, J ^a   Arnold, S R ^b   Stohl, Andreas ^c   Evans, M J ^b   Avery, M ^d   Law, K ^e   Lewis, A C ^f   Monks, P S ^g   Parrish, D D ^h   Reeves, C E ⁱ   Schlager, H ^j   Atlas, Eliot L ^k   Blake, D R ^l   Coe, H ^m   Crosier, J ^m   Flocke, Frank M ⁿ   Holloway, John S ^h   Hopkins, J R ^f   McQuaid, J ^b   Purvis, R ^o   Rappengluck B ^p   Singh, H B ^q   Watson, N M ^f   Whalley, L K ^b   Williams, P I ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^j GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^o Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements   (United Kingdom)

^p KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^q NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

AIR MASS; FORECASTING METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34547873126     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007540     Document Type: Article

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