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J Lelieveld1, H Berresheim, S Borrmann, P J Crutzen, F J Dentener, H Fischer, J Feichter, P J Flatau, J Heland, R Holzinger, R Korrmann, M G Lawrence, Z Levin, K M Markowicz, N Mihalopoulos, A Minikin, V Ramanathan, M De Reus, G J Roelofs, H A Scheeren, J Sciare, H Schlager, M Schultz, P Siegmund, B Steil, E G Stephanou, P Stier, M Traub, C Warneke, J Williams, H Ziereis.
Abstract
The Mediterranean Intensive Oxidant Study, performed in the summer of 2001, uncovered air pollution layers from the surface to an altitude of 15 kilometers. In the boundary layer, air pollution standards are exceeded throughout the region, caused by West and East European pollution from the north. Aerosol particles also reduce solar radiation penetration to the surface, which can suppress precipitation. In the middle troposphere, Asian and to a lesser extent North American pollution is transported from the west. Additional Asian pollution from the east, transported from the monsoon in the upper troposphere, crosses the Mediterranean tropopause, which pollutes the lower stratosphere at middle latitudes.Mesh：
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Year: 2002 PMID： 12399583 DOI： 10.1126/science.1075457
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728