Polar vortex conditions during the 1995-96 Arctic winter: MLS ClO and HNO3

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3207-3210

  Santee, M L ^a   Manney, G L ^a   Read, W G ^a   Froidevaux, L ^a   Waters, J W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; GASES; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLOUDS; NITRIC ACID; SOUNDING APPARATUS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DIABATIC; MEASUREMENTS OF; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MIDLATITUDES; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; POLAR VORTEX; STRONG CORRELATION; TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS;

VORTEX FLOW; CLIMATOLOGY;

CHLORINE MONOXIDE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER MEASUREMENTS; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

CHLORINE MONOXIDE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NITRIC ACID; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0030282185     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02454     Document Type: Article

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