Downward transport of ozone-rich air near Mt. Everest

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Zhu, Tong ^a   Lin, Weili ^a,b   Song, Yu ^a   Cai, Xuhui ^a   Zou, Hah ^c   Kang, Ling ^a   Zhou, Libo ^c   Akimoto, Hajime ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE LAYER; SEA LEVEL; SNOW; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT; KATABATIC WIND; OZONE CONCENTRATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; KATABATIC FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; OZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; MOUNT EVEREST;

EID: 34548082580     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027726     Document Type: Article

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