Trends in tropical tropospheric column ozone from satellite data and MOZART model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Beig, Gufran ^a   Singh, Vikas ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE LAYER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

MULTIFUNCTIONAL REGRESSION MODEL; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS); TROPICAL TROPOSPHERIC COLUMN OZONE;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MODELING; NIMBUS-7; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; TOMS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 35948990434     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030460     Document Type: Article

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