Long-term trends of surface ozone and its influencing factors at the Mt Waliguan GAW station, China-Part 1: Overall trends and characteristics

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6191-6205

  Xu, Wanyun ^a   Lin, Weili ^b   Xu, Xiaobin ^a   Tang, Jie ^b   Huang, Jianqing ^c   Wu, Hao ^c   Zhang, Xiaochun ^b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c Qinghai Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OZONE; PERIODICITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84971255136     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-6191-2016     Document Type: Article

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