Phase transformations in sulfuric acid aerosols: Implications for stratospheric ozone depletion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-72

  Imre, Dan G ^a   Xu, Jun ^a,b   Tridico, Anthony C ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CHLORINE; FREEZING; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SULFURIC ACID; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; EXPERIMENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE; CATALYTIC DESTRUCTION; CHLORINE ACTIVATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FREEZING CONDITIONS; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; SULFURIC ACID AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CHLORINE; OZONE DEPLETION; SPECIES; STRATOSPHERE; SULPHURIC ACID;

EID: 0030668005     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03291     Document Type: Article

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