Arctic ozone loss due to denitrification

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5410, 1999, Pages 2064-2069

  Waibel, A E ^a,d   Peter, Th ^a,e   Carslaw, K S ^a,f   Oelhaf, H ^b   Wetzel, G ^b   Crutzen, P J ^a   Poschl U ^a,g   Tsias, A ^a   Reimer, E ^c   Fischer, H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Deutsche Lufthansa AG   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; OZONE;

COOLING; DENITRIFICATION; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0033605547     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5410.2064     Document Type: Article

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52. We thank L. Froidevaux, H. Graf, P. Newman, W. Randel, S. Solomon, and three anonymous reviewers for very helpful discussions, R. van Dorland for a calculation of stratospheric cooling rates, and M. Rex and P. von der Gathen for providing the Match results before publication. In part, this work was funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under contract 01 LO 9221/4 (POLECAT) and 01 LO 9401 (MIPAS-B) and by the European Union under contract ENVCT95-0050 (TOPOZ), EV5VCT93-0331 (SESAME), and ENVCT95-0155 (STREAM).