Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8389-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8389-2018
Research article
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15 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 15 Jun 2018

Influence of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation on European tropospheric composition: an observational and modelling study

Richard J. Pope, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Stephen R. Arnold, Norbert Glatthor, Wuhu Feng, Sandip S. Dhomse, Brian J. Kerridge, Barry G. Latter, and Richard Siddans

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