The HAMMONIA chemistry climate model: Sensitivity of the mesopause region to the 11-year solar cycle and CO2 doubling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3903-3931

  Schmidt, Hauke ^a   Brasseur, Guy P ^a   Charron, M ^a,b   Manzini, E ^a,c   Giorgetta, Marco A ^a   Diehl, Thomas ^a,d   Fomichev, V I ^e   Kinnison, D ^f   Marsh, D ^f   Walters, Stacy ^f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; OZONE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; HAMBURG MODEL OF THE NEUTRAL AND IONIZED ATMOSPHERE; MESOPAUSE REGION;

METEOROLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; MESOPAUSE; SOLAR CYCLE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 33748806306     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3829.1     Document Type: Article

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