Ozone and temperature profiles measured above Kiruna inside, at the edge of, and outside the Arctic polar vortex in February and March 1997

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 715-718

  Kreher, K ^a,b   Bodeker, G E ^a,b   Kanzawa, H ^a   Nakane, H ^a   Sasano, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

OZONE DEPLETION; POLAR VORTEX;

OZONE LAYER;

OZONE; POLAR VORTEX; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0033559736     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900088     Document Type: Article

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