Climate variability modulates western US ozone air quality in spring via deep stratospheric intrusions

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lin, Meiyun ^a,b   Fiore, Arlene M ^c,d   Horowitz, Larry W ^b   Langford, Andrew O ^b   Oltmans, Samuel J ^b,e   Tarasick, David ^f   Rieder, Harald E ^d,g  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; JET FLOW; LA NINA; OZONE; SIMULATION; SPRING (SEASON); STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MEASUREMENT; OZONE LAYER; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SPRING; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANO; WEATHER; WINTER;

CENTRAL LUZON; LUZON; MOUNT PINATUBO; PHILIPPINES; UNITED STATES; ZAMBALES;

EID: 84928712741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8105     Document Type: Article

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