Stratospheric trends of CFC-12 over the past two decades: Recent observational evidence of declining growth rates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3319-3322

  Engel, Andreas ^a   Schmidt, Ulrich ^a   McKenna, Daniel ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATOSPHERIC OZONE LOSSES;

CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; NITROGEN OXIDES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BALLOON OBSERVATION; CFC; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0032173329     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02520     Document Type: Article

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