Summertime impact of convective transport and lightning NOx production over North America: Modeling dependence on meteorological simulations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4315-4327

  Zhao, C ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Choi, Y ^b   Zeng, T ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENTRAINMENT; LIGHTNING; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 74049137329     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-4315-2009     Document Type: Article

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