Causes of increasing ozone and decreasing carbon monoxide in springtime at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory from 2004 to 2013

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 323-330

  Gratz, L E ^a   Jaffe, D A ^a,b   Hee, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian long range transport; Carbon monoxide; Long term trends; Ozone; Trajectory cluster analysis; Western U.S.

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; OBSERVATORIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ASIAN LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; EFFICIENT COMBUSTIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; LONG-TERM TREND; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; WESTERN U.S;

OZONE;

CARBON MONOXIDE; OZONE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACK TRAJECTORY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPE; LATITUDE; MID LATITUDE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84949100035     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.05.076     Document Type: Article

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