Maintenance of polar stratospheric clouds in a moist stratosphere

Climate of the Past

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-78

  Kirk Davidoff, D B ^a   Lamarque, J F ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EOCENE; HEATING; METHANE; OPTICAL DEPTH; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 41549097797     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-4-69-2008     Document Type: Article

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