Interannual variations of total ozone and their relationship to variations of planetary wave activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1619-1629

  Fusco, Andrew C ^a,c   Salby, Murry L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

HALOCARBONS; INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; OZONE TRANSPORT; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; STRATOSPHERE DYNAMICS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COLUMN; OZONE; SEASONALITY; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 0032695714     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1619:IVOTOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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