Impact of energetic particle precipitation on stratospheric polar constituents: An assessment using monitoring and assimilation of operational MIPAS data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1739-1757

  Robichaud, A ^a   Menard R ^a   Chabrillat, S ^b   De Grandpre J ^a   Rochon, Y J ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Charette, C ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 77149154086     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-1739-2010     Document Type: Article

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