In situ water vapor and ozone measurements in Lhasa and Kunming during the Asian summer monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Bian, Jianchun ^a   Pan, Laura L ^b   Paulik, Laura ^b   Vmel, Holger ^c   Chen, Hongbin ^a   Lu, Daren ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GRUAN Lead Center Meteorologisches Observatorium ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE; VAPORS;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; AVERAGE HEIGHT; CIRCULATION SYSTEMS; COLD POINT; COMBINED WATER; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE MEASUREMENTS; OZONESONDES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; TROPICAL LOCATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

WATER POLLUTION;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MONSOON; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; KUNMING; LHASA; XIZANG; YUNNAN;

EID: 84867520211     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052996     Document Type: Article

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