2002-2003 Arctic ozone loss deduced from POAM III satellite observations and the SLIMCAT chemical transport model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 597-609

  Singleton, C S ^a   Randall, C E ^a   Chipperfield, M P ^b   Davies, S ^b   Feng, W ^b   Bevilacqua, R M ^c   Hoppel, K W ^c   Fromm, M D ^d   Manney, G L ^e,f   Harvey, V L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 16644372601     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-5-597-2005     Document Type: Article

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