Unusual stratospheric transport and mixing during the 2002 Antarctic winter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Allen, Douglas R ^a   Bevilacqua, Richard M ^a   Nedoluha, Gerald E ^a   Randall, Cora E ^b   Manney, Gloria L ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; STRATIGRAPHY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVES; WIND; MIXING;

AIR PARCELS; ISENTROPIC TRANSPORT; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; POLAR OZONE AND AEROSOL MEASUREMENTS; POLAR TEMPERATURE; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX;

GEOPHYSICS; VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; WINTER;

EID: 0042621575     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017117     Document Type: Article

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