Nonorographic generation of Arctic polar stratospheric clouds during December 1999

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Hitchman, Matthew H ^a   Buker, Marcus L ^a   Tripoli, Gregory J ^a   Browell, Edward V ^b   Grant, William B ^b   McGee, Thomas J ^c   Burris, John F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity waves; Mesoscale modeling; Ozone; Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs); Rossby wave breaking; Synoptic waves

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVE; OZONE; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0347899438     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jd001034     Document Type: Article

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