Winter mesospheric temperatures above South Pole (90°S) and their relationship to the springtime ozone hole size

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Hernandez, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; OZONE LAYER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MESOSPHERE; OZONE DEPLETION; POLAR VORTEX; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOUTH POLE;

EID: 3042699995     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019414     Document Type: Article

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