Longitudinally dependent ozone increase in the Antarctic polar vortex revealed by balloon and satellite observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1807-1820

  Sato, Kauro ^a   Tomikawa, Y ^b   Hashida, G ^b   Yamanouchi, T ^b   Nakajima, H ^c   Sugita, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE-II; AIR PARCELS; ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE; ANTARCTIC POLAR VORTEX; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY REGIONS; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ILAS-II; IMPROVED LIMB ATMOSPHERIC SPECTROMETER-II; ISENTROPES; ISENTROPIC; LAGRANGIAN; LATERAL MIXING; MIXING RATIOS; OPERATIONAL DATA; OZONE MIXING RATIO; OZONE SONDES; OZONE-RICH AIR; PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR LATITUDE; POLAR VORTEX; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; QUASI-STATIONARY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL COORDINATES; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MIXING; OZONE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OZONE LAYER;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; OZONESONDE; POLAR VORTEX; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 68949146265     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2904.1     Document Type: Article

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