Ozone concentration changes in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone and lower stratospheric water vapour: An idealised model study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Braesicke, Peter ^a,b   Smith, Oliver J ^b   Telford, Paul ^a,b   Pyle, John A ^a,b  

^a National Centre for Atmospheric Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL STUDY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OZONE CONCENTRATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOUR;

OZONE;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79751513137     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046228     Document Type: Article

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