Monthly averaged ozone and nitrous oxide from the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS) in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere polar regions

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Khosrawi, Farahnaz ^a,b   Müller, Rolf ^b   Proffitt, Michael H ^c   Nakajima, Hideaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ILAS; Ozone tracer correlations; Stratospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLAR REGION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 4143130973     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JD004365     Document Type: Article

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