Clouds, photolysis and regional tropospheric ozone budgets

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8235-8246

  Voulgarakis, A ^a,d   Wild, O ^b   Savage, N H ^c   Carver, G D ^a   Pyle, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLOUD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450230343     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-8235-2009     Document Type: Article

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