Summertime free-tropospheric ozone pool over the eastern Mediterranean/middle east

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-132

  Zanis, P ^a   Hadjinicolaou, P ^b   Pozzer, A ^c   Tyrlis, E ^b   Dafka, S ^a,d   Mihalopoulos, N ^b,e   Lelieveld, J ^b,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETER; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84891699219     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-115-2014     Document Type: Article

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