Influence of interannual variations in transport on summertime abundances of ozone over the Middle East

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jane J ^a,b   Jones, Dylan B A ^a   Zhang, Shunli ^a   Kar, Jay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ASIA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LOCAL SOURCE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SUMMERTIME OZONE;

OZONE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; EOS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80455156357     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016188     Document Type: Article

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