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Tropospheric ozone increases over the southern Africa region: bellwether for rapid growth in Southern Hemisphere pollution?
A. M. Thompson
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 614, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Meteorology, University Park, PA 16802, USA
N. V. Balashov
Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Meteorology, University Park, PA 16802, USA
J. C. Witte
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 614, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
SSAI, Lanham, MD 20706, USA
J. G. R. Coetzee
South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa
V. Thouret
Laboratoire D'Aerologie, Obs. Du Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Atmosphere and Cyclone Lab, Université de La Réunion, La Réunion, France
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