Transport analysis of ozone enhancement in Southern Ontario during BAQS-Met

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2569-2583

  He, H ^a   Tarasick, D W ^a   Hocking, W K ^b   Carey Smith, T K ^c   Rochon, Y ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Makar, P A ^a   Osman, M ^b   Brook, J ^a   Moran, M D ^a   Jones, D B A ^d   Mihele, C ^a   Wei, J C ^e   Osterman, G ^f   Argall, P S ^b   McConnell, J ^g   Bourqui, M S ^h  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; OZONESONDE; PROFILER; RADAR; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; WIND PROFILE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 79952853437     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-2569-2011     Document Type: Article

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