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ISRN Meteorology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 625318, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/625318
Research Article
Influence of Stratospheric Intrusion on the Surface Ozone Levels in India
Department of Physics, St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad 380009, India
Received 5 April 2012; Accepted 21 June 2012
Academic Editors: S. Iizuka, N. A. Mazzeo, and D. Moreira
Copyright © 2012 Nandita D. Ganguly. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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