Estimating downward cross-tropopause ozone flux using column ozone and potential vorticity

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 22, 2002, Pages ACH-11-1-ACH-11-9

  Olsen, Mark A ^a   Douglass, Anne R ^a   Schoeberl, Mark R ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

0341 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Middle atmosphere constituent transport and chemistry (3334); 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing; 3362 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; OZONE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

OZONE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 36448933461     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD002041     Document Type: Article

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