Long-range pollution transport during the MILAGRO-2006 campaign: A case study of a major Mexico City outflow event using free-floating altitude-controlled balloons

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 7137-7159

  Voss, P B ^a   Zaveri, R A ^b   Flocke, F M ^c   Mao, H ^d   Hartley, T P ^a   Deamicis, P ^a   Deonandan, I ^a   Contreras Jimenez G ^e   Martinez Antonio O ^e   Figueroa Estrada, M ^f   Greenberg, D ^g   Campos, T L ^c   Weinheimer, A J ^c   Knapp, D J ^c   Montzka, D D ^c   Crounse, J D ^h   Wennberg, P O ^i,j   Apel, E ^c   Madronich, S ^c   De Foy, B ^k  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES QUÍMICAS   (Mexico)

^f Instituto Nacional de Ecologia   (Mexico)

^g Mohawk Trail Regional School District   (United States)

^h California Institute of Technology   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k Saint Louis University   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BALLOON OBSERVATION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METROPOLITAN AREA; OUTFLOW; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL;

EID: 77955333673     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-7137-2010     Document Type: Article

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