Why does surface ozone peak before a typhoon landing in southeast China?

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 13331-13338

  Jiang, Y C ^a   Zhao, T L ^a   Liu, J ^b,c   Xu, X D ^d   Tan, C H ^a   Cheng, X H ^d   Bi, X Y ^e,f   Gan, J B ^g   You, J F ^h   Zhao, S Z ⁱ  

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

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^f NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^g Fujian Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

^h Quanzhou Municipal Bureau of Meteorology   (China)

ⁱ Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Meteorology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE; TROPOSPHERE; TYPHOON;

CHINA; FUJIAN; QUANZHOU; XIAMEN;

EID: 84948809083     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-13331-2015     Document Type: Article

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