Study of stratosphere-troposphere exchange events of ozone in India and Greece using ozonesonde ascents

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 467-474

  Ganguly, Nandita D ^a   Tzanis, Chris ^b  

^a ST XAVIER S COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Latitudinal effect; Ozone; Seasonal effect; Stratospheric intrusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960590634     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.241     Document Type: Article

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