Characteristics of sea breeze front development with various synoptic conditions and its impact on lower troposphere ozone formation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1461-1478

  Ji, Hyo Eun ^a   Lee, Soon Hwan ^a   Lee, Hwa Woon ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

numerical simulation; ozone; sea breeze front; synoptic opposing flow; wind profiler

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881578117     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2256-3     Document Type: Article

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