Recent tropospheric ozone changes - A pattern dominated by slow or no growth

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 331-351

  Oltmans, S J ^a,b   Lefohn, A S ^c   Shadwick, D ^d   Harris, J M ^b   Scheel, H E ^e   Galbally, I ^f   Tarasick, D W ^g   Johnson, B J ^b   Brunke, E G ^h   Claude, H ⁱ   Zeng, G ^j   Nichol, S ^j   Schmidlin, F ^k   Davies, J ^g   Cuevas, E ^l   Redondas, A ^l   Naoe, H ^m   Nakano, T ^m   Kawasato, T ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ASL & Associates   (United States)

^d KIT IMK IFU ^*  (United States)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^h SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE   (South Africa)

ⁱ Hohenpeissenberg Observatory   (Germany)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^k NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^l AEMET   (Spain)

^m JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Changes in concentration distribution; Trends; Troposphere ozone

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE; TIME SERIES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME SERIES MODELING; TRENDS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

URBAN GROWTH;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN AREA;

AMERICAN SAMOA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; JAPAN; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 84870938017     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.10.057     Document Type: Article

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