Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6676, 1998, Pages 589-592

  Shindell, Drew T ^a   Rind, David ^a   Lonergan, Patrick ^a  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; OZONE; POLAR REGION; STRATOSPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0032499232     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33385     Document Type: Article

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