Northern winter stratospheric temperature and ozone responses to ENSO inferred from an ensemble of Chemistry Climate Models

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8935-8948

  Cagnazzo, C ^a   Manzini, E ^a,b   Calvo, N ^c   Douglass, A ^d   Akiyoshi, H ^e   Bekki, S ^f   Chipperfield, M ^g   Dameris, M ^h   Deushi, M ⁱ   Fischer, A M ^j,q   Garny, H ^h   Gettelman, A ^k   Giorgetta, M A ^l   Plummer, D ^m   Rozanov, E ^j,o   Shepherd, T G ⁿ   Shibata, K ⁱ   Stenke, A ^h   Struthers, H ^p,r   Tian, W ^g  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

ⁱ METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^j ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^k NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^m ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^q FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^r STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OZONE; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; WINTER;

EID: 71149118606     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-8935-2009     Document Type: Article

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