Bimodal distribution of free tropospheric ozone over the tropical western Pacific revealed by airborne observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7844-7851

  Pan, L L ^a   Honomichl, S B ^a   Randel, W J ^a   Apel, E C ^a   Atlas, E L ^b   Beaton, S P ^a   Bresch, J F ^a   Hornbrook, R ^a   Kinnison, D E ^a   Lamarque, J F ^a   Saiz Lopez, A ^c   Salawitch, R J ^d   Weinheimer, A J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

convective transport; dry intrusions; ozone and water vapor relationship; tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

OZONE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT; DRY INTRUSIONS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

OZONE LAYER;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84945218516     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065562     Document Type: Article

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