Articles | Volume 14, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-10119-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-10119-2014
Research article
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23 Sep 2014
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2014

Summertime tropospheric ozone assessment over the Mediterranean region using the thermal infrared IASI/MetOp sounder and the WRF-Chem model

S. Safieddine, A. Boynard, P.-F. Coheur, D. Hurtmans, G. Pfister, B. Quennehen, J. L. Thomas, J.-C. Raut, K. S. Law, Z. Klimont, J. Hadji-Lazaro, M. George, and C. Clerbaux

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