Polar stratospheric clouds: a high latitude warming mechanism in an ancient greenhouse world

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3517-3520

  Sloan, L Cirbus ^a   Pollard, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; GREENHOUSE WARMING; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; VERY LOW TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GREENHOUSES; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

PALEOCLIMATE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; WARMING;

EID: 0032531360     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02492     Document Type: Article

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