Atmospheric transport of persistent semi-volatile organic chemicals to the Arctic and cold condensation in the mid-troposphere ĝ€" Part 2: 3-D modeling of episodic atmospheric transport

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 7315-7324

  Zhang, L ^a   Ma, J ^b   Tian, C ^c   Li, Y ^b   Hung, H ^b  

^a Lamu Environment   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONDENSATION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 77955440665     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-7315-2010     Document Type: Article

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