Articles | Volume 15, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-11201-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-11201-2015
Research article
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08 Oct 2015
Research article |  | 08 Oct 2015

The influence of synoptic weather regimes on UK air quality: regional model studies of tropospheric column NO2

R. J. Pope, N. H. Savage, M. P. Chipperfield, C. Ordóñez, and L. S. Neal

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