Impact of future climate and emission changes on stratospheric aerosols and ozone

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 414-440

  Pitari, G ^a   Mancini, E ^a   Rizi, V ^a   Shindell, D T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EMISSION CHANGE; EMISSION SCENARIO; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE TRENDS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS CHEMICAL REACTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; KEYPOINTS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OPTICAL DEPTH; OZONE LOSS; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; POLAR VORTEX; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RECOVERY RATE; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; SULFATE AEROSOLS; SULFUR PRODUCTION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE EMISSIONS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TOTAL OZONE; TROPICAL LATITUDES; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; UPPER LIMITS; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 0036328636     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059%3C0414%3AIOFCAE%3E2.0.C     Document Type: Article

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