Efficient transport of tropospheric aerosol into the stratosphere via the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 27, 2017, Pages 6972-6977

  Yu, Pengfei ^a,b   Rosenlof, Karen H ^b   Liu, Shang ^a,b,c   Telg, Hagen ^a,b   Thornberry, Troy D ^a,b   Rollins, Andrew W ^a,b   Portmann, Robert W ^b   Bai, Zhixuan ^d   Ray, Eric A ^a,b   Duan, Yunjun ^e   Pan, Laura L ^f   Toon, Owen B ^a   Bian, Jianchun ^d,g   Gao, Ru Shan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e Kunming Meteorological Administration   (China)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; Asian tropopause aerosol layer; Pollution; Small volcanoes; Stratospheric aerosol

Indexed keywords

OZONE; WATER;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; LATITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; SURFACE AREA; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANO; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 85021753004     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701170114     Document Type: Article

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