Intercomparison of stratospheric HNO3 measurements over Antarctica: Ground-based millimeter-wave versus UARS/MLS Version 5 retrievals

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Muscari, Giovanni ^a,c   Santee, Michelle L ^b   De Zafra, Robert L ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intercomparison; Nitric acid; Polar stratosphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MILLIMETER WAVES; SATELLITES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AIR SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDENSATION; DATA SET; GAS PHASE REACTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NITRIC ACID; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UARS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0742304627     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JD002546     Document Type: Article

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