Is Antarctic climate most sensitive to ozone depletion in the middle or lower stratosphere?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Keeley, S P E ^a   Gillett, N P ^a   Thompson, D W J ^b   Solomon, S ^c   Forster, P M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

OZONE DEPLETION; TROPOPAUSE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GEOPOTENTIAL; MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OZONE; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 38949101589     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031238     Document Type: Article

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