A novel tropopause-related climatology of ozone profiles

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 283-299

  Sofieva, V F ^a   Tamminen, J ^a   Kyrola E ^a   Mielonen, T ^a,b   Veefkind, P ^b,c   Hassler, B ^d,e   Bodeker, G E ^f  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f BODEKER SCIENTIFIC   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; AURA (SATELLITE); CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EOS; LATITUDE; OZONE; OZONESONDE; PRECISION; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84891926179     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-283-2014     Document Type: Article

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