Mechanisms of ozone enhancement during stratospheric intrusion coupled with convection over upper troposphere equatorial Africa

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 410-424

  Mengistu Tsidu, Gizaw ^a   Ture, Kassahun ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b MADDA WALABU UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Convection; MTM SVD; Ozone enhancement; Stratospheric intrusion; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; DEEP CONVECTION; EASTERN PACIFIC; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL AFRICA; ERA INTERIMS; FLIGHT ROUTE; FOURIER DECOMPOSITION; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SERVICE AIRCRAFTS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; JOHANNESBURG; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MEASUREMENTS OF; METEOSAT; MTM-SVD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; PLANETARY WAVES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SMALL SCALE; STRATOSPHERIC INTRUSION; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VALUE DECOMPOSITION; WIND ANOMALIES; ZONAL WAVENUMBER; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT CONVECTION; NASA; NATURAL CONVECTION; OZONE LAYER; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OZONE;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; METEOSAT; MOZAIC PROGRAM; NOAA SATELLITE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RESOLUTION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL CYCLE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AVIATION; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

AFRICA;

EID: 84874523804     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.01.024     Document Type: Article

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