Variability of total ozone over India and its adjoining regions during 1997-2008

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1927-1936

  Pal, Chandramadhab ^a  

^a Swami Vivekananda Research Center   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Free radical; Ozone precursor; Photo smog; Photolysis; Stratospheric ozone; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE RANGE; AVERAGE VALUES; BANGLADESH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EARTH PROBE; HIGHER LATITUDES; LONGITUDINAL VARIATIONS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE DISTRIBUTION; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; OZONE PRECURSOR; OZONE PRECURSORS; PAKISTAN; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; TRANSITION LAYERS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; TWO PHASIS; WIND PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERICS; FREE RADICALS; MARINE POLLUTION; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOLYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ORGANIC CARBON; OZONE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FREE RADICAL; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; OZONE; PHOTOLYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TOMS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OZONE DEPLETION; PAKISTAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TROPOSPHERE;

BANGLADESH; INDIA; PAKISTAN;

EID: 77950935321     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.01.028     Document Type: Article

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