Simultaneous lidar observations of a polar stratospheric cloud on the east and west sides of the Scandinavian mountains and microphysical box model simulations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3267-3277

  Blum, U ^a   Khosrawi, F ^b   Baumgarten, G ^c   Stebel, K ^d   Muller, R ^e   Fricke, K H ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; LIDAR; NITRIC ACID; OZONE DEPLETION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD;

ARCTIC; ESRANGE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORRBOTTEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33845962739     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-24-3267-2006     Document Type: Article

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