Tropospheric column ozone: Matching individual profiles from Aura OMI and TES with a chemistry-transport model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10441-10452

  Tang, Q ^a,b   Prather, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; AURA (SATELLITE); NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84869001313     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-10441-2012     Document Type: Article

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