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Research article
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15 May 2017
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| 15 May 2017
OMI satellite observations of decadal changes in ground-level sulfur dioxide over North America
Shailesh K. Kharol
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Chris A. McLinden
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Christopher E. Sioris
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Mark W. Shephard
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Vitali Fioletov
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Aaron van Donkelaar
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sajeev Philip
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
now at: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA
Randall V. Martin
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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