The response of tropical tropospheric ozone to ENSO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Oman, L D ^a   Ziemke, J R ^a,b   Douglass, A R ^a   Waugh, D W ^c   Lang, C ^c   Rodriguez, J M ^a   Nielsen, J E ^a,d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; CIRCULATION CHANGES; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; INDIAN OCEAN REGIONS; OZONE RESPONSE; OZONE SENSITIVITY; OZONESONDES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL RESPONSE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

OZONE;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMISSION; EOS; LINEARITY; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 79960540463     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047865     Document Type: Article

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