Reassessment of causes of ozone column variability following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo using a nudged CCM

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4251-4260

  Telford, P ^a   Braesicke, P ^a   Morgenstern, O ^a,b   Pyle, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE; TOTAL OZONE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CENTRAL LUZON; LUZON; MOUNT PINATUBO; PHILIPPINES; ZAMBALES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 72449139623     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-4251-2009     Document Type: Article

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