What controls the temperature of the Arctic stratosphere during the spring?

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 106, Issue D17, 2001, Pages 19999-20010

  Newman, Paul A ^a   Nash, Eric R ^a,b,d   Rosenfield, Joan E ^a,c,e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Emergent Information Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; POLAR VORTEX; SPRING (SEASON); STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0034773087     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD000061     Document Type: Article

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