Simulations of stratospheric to tropospheric transport during the tropical cyclone Marlene event

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 31, 2007, Pages 6510-6526

  Leclair De Bellevue, J ^a   Baray, J L ^a   Baldy, S ^a   Ancellet, G ^b   Diab, R ^c   Ravetta, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Mesoscale modelling; Stratospheric tropopsheric exchange; Tropical cyclone; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

MESOSCALE MODELING; STRATOSPHERIC-TROPOPSHERIC EXCHANGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOMASS BURNING; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; HURRICANE; METEOROLOGY; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 34548253544     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.04.040     Document Type: Article

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