Antarctic air over New Zealand following vortex breakdown in 1998

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2175-2183

  Ajtic J ^a,b   Connor, B J ^b   Randall, C E ^c   Lawrence, B N ^d   Bodeker, G E ^b   Rosenfield, J E ^e   Heuff, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (middle atmosphere composition and chemistry); Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (middle atmosphere dynamics)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; OZONE; OZONESONDE; POLAR VORTEX;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0242490354     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-2175-2003     Document Type: Article

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