Solar proton events of October-November 2003: Ozone depletion in the Northern Hemisphere polar winter as seen by GOMOS/Envisat

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Seppala A ^a   Verronen, P T ^a   Kyrola E ^a   Hassinen, S ^a   Backman, L ^a   Hauchecorne, A ^b   Bertaux, J L ^b   Fussen, D ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

0341 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Middle atmosphere constituent transport and chemistry (3334); 2455 Ionosphere: Particle precipitation; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OZONE; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION;

GOMOS INSTRUMENT; OZONE DEPLETION; POLAR WINTERS; SOLAR PROTONS;

PROTONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE DEPLETION; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 11044231546     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021042     Document Type: Article

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