The Impact of the South Asia High Bimodality on the Chemical Composition of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 229-234

  Ren Chang, Yan ^a,b   Jian Chun, Bian ^a   Qiu Jun, Fan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

Author keywords

bimodality; chemical composition; SAH; UTLS

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; IRANIAN PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84892533790     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2011.11446934     Document Type: Article

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