Horizontal transport affecting trace gas seasonality in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ploeger, F ^a   Konopka, P ^a   Muller R ^a   Fueglistaler, S ^b   Schmidt, T ^c   Manners, J C ^d   Grooss J U ^a   Gunther G ^a   Forster, P M ^e   Riese, M ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CLOUDS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS; VAPORS;

AIR SHOWS; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EXTRATROPICAL; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; MIDLATITUDES; MIXING RATIOS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TRACE GAS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS;

MIXING;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CIRCULATION MODELING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS TRANSPORT; MIXING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TRACE GAS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84861130190     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017267     Document Type: Article

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