Summertime "ozone valley" over the Tibetan Plateau derived from ozonesondes and EP/TOMS data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Tobo, Yutaka ^a   Iwasaka, Yasunobu ^a   Zhang, Daizhou ^b   Shi, Guangyu ^c   Kim, Yoon Suk ^d   Tamura, Koichi ^d   Ohashi, Tetsuya ^d  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF KUMAMOTO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; GASES; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MIXING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; DEEP CONVECTIONS; LOWER STRATOSPHERES; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSES; OZONE CHANGES; OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETERS; OZONE MIXING; OZONE SONDES; SOUTH ASIA; SURROUNDING AREAS; TIBETAN PLATEAUX; TOTAL OZONES;

OZONE;

MONSOON; OZONE; OZONESONDE; SUMMER; TOMS; TROPOPAUSE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 56449131187     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034341     Document Type: Article

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