Stratospheric meteorological conditions for the 3-12 Nov 1994 ATMOS/ATLAS-3 measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2409-2412

  Manney, G L ^a   Swinbank, R ^b   O'Neill, A ^c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c Ctr for Global Atmosph Modelling   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROMETERS; VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TRACE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; POLAR VORTEX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TRACE GAS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATLAS-3 MISSION; ATMOS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; VORTEX;

EID: 0030302435     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00774     Document Type: Article

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