Polar vortex conditions during the 1995-96 Arctic winter: Meteorology and MLS ozone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3203-3206

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; CLOUDS; TROPOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE RANGE; CHEMICAL PROCESSING; LOWER STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE;

VORTEX FLOW; CLIMATOLOGY;

MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER MEASUREMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE WINTER STRATOSPHERE; OZONE DEPLETION; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; SPRING EQUINOX; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES; TROPOSPHERE RIDGES;

MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0030282654     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02453     Document Type: Article

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