Dehydration and denitrification in the Arctic polar vortex during the 1995-1996 winter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 501-504

  Hintsa, E J ^a   Newman, P A ^b   Jonsson, H H ^c   Webster, C R ^d   May, R D ^d   Herman, R L ^d   Lait, L R ^b   Schoeberl, M R ^b   Elkins, J W ^e,g   Wamsley, P R ^e,g   Dutton, G S ^e,g   Bui, T P ^f   Kohn, D W ^a   Anderson, J G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NOAA Climate Monitoring D   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DENITRIFICATION; ICE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIR PARCELS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; POLAR VORTEX; REACTIVE NITROGEN; SELECTIVE GROWTH; TIME-SCALES;

VORTEX FLOW; METEOROLOGY;

DEHYDRATION; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN;

ARCTIC POLAR VORTEX;

DEHYDRATION; POLAR VORTEX;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0032004825     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00115     Document Type: Article

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