Trends in stratospheric ozone: Lessons learned from a 3D chemical transport model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1028-1041

  Stolarski, Richard S ^a   Douglass, Anne R ^a   Steenrod, Stephen ^b   Pawson, Steven ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VOLCANOES;

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC PERTURBATIONS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VOLCANOES;

CFC; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645971365     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3650.1     Document Type: Article

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