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, 2008). Frontal passages were diagnosed using time series of three variables: maximum temperature, dewpoint http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Etopophos.html temperature and wind direction. For each variable at a given station, the mean and standard deviation (over all years and dates) of the absolute difference between one day and the preceding day were calculated at each station and each variable. A difference or step function larger than one standard deviation above the mean was designated as a ��jump��. When two or more variables had a simultaneous jump, a frontal passage was identified. The typical number of frontal passages (7.5 per season) and stagnation events (1.8 per season) agreed with other studies (Wang and Angell, 1999?and?Leibensperger et?al., 2008). Our diagnosis of frontal passages also compared well with historical maps from the online Weather Prediction Center Surface Analysis Archive (at , not shown). Using the observed relationships between wind characteristics and ozone, four air-flow metrics were created to represent regional transport at each station. These metrics were based on previously demonstrated differentiation of ozone concentrations in the Northeastern U.S. by local wind speed and direction (Husar and Rendard, 1997). Thus, http://www.selleckchem.com/products/fg-4592.html each date was classified into 18 different ��bins�� based on both the wind speed (low, medium, high) and direction (60-degree bins). The mean of each bin was calculated, as well as the percent of the bin sample that was ��60?ppbv. Two kinds of air-flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTPRJ metrics were computed, ��simple�� and ��sophisticated��. The former was a count of the number of dates in a given season that fell into one of the top 4 bins of the bin-mean ozone values. The latter was the product of the number of instances that each bin occurred during a season and the percent of the time that the bin was ��60?ppbv. Metrics were also calculated at both a height of 10-meters above ground level as well as the geostrophic winds at 850?mb. Sixteen metrics based on teleconnections were computed from the seasonal means of the indices representing the Arctic Oscillation (AO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and the Tropical/Northern Hemisphere pattern (T/NH). Only the seasonal means that coincided with the teleconnection patterns being a leading mode of variability were included. The September-October-November (SON) means were excluded because preliminary examination indicated that they were never correlated with the ozone metrics. The Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division's ��Linear Correlations in Atmospheric Seasonal/Monthly Averages�� tool