A global ozone climatology from ozone soundings via trajectory mapping: A stratospheric perspective

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 11441-11464

  Liu, J ^a,b,c   Tarasick, D W ^a   Fioletov, V E ^a   McLinden, C ^a   Zhao, T ^d   Gong, S ^a   Sioris, C ^a   Jin, J J ^e   Liu, G ^f   Moeini, O ^g  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; MAPPING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE;

CANADA;

EID: 84889765644     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-11441-2013     Document Type: Article

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