Isolation of the ozone QBO in SAGE II data by singular-value decomposition

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2546-2559

  Randel, William J ^a,b   Wu, Fei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERANNUAL VARIATION; OZONE; QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SAGE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0030403513     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<2546:IOTOQI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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