Can changes in ENSO activity help to explain increasing stratospheric water vapor?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Scaife, Adam A ^a   Butchart, Neal ^a   Jackson, David R ^a   Swinbank, Richard ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; METHANE; OSCILLATIONS; OXIDATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; METHANE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0346216928     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017591     Document Type: Article

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