Ozone seasonality above the tropical tropopause: Reconciling the Eulerian and Lagrangian perspectives of transport processes

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 10787-10794

  Abalos, M ^a   Ploeger, F ^b   Konopka, P ^b   Randel, W J ^c   Serrano, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OZONE; SEASONALITY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; UPWELLING;

EID: 84887423496     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-10787-2013     Document Type: Article

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