Atmospheric tracers during the 2003-2004 stratospheric warming event and impact of ozone intrusions in the troposphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2157-2170

  Liu, Y ^a   Liu, C X ^a,b   Wang, H P ^a,b   Tie, X X ^c   Gao, S T ^a   Kinnison, D ^c   Brasseur, G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OZONE; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 70350001186     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-2157-2009     Document Type: Article

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