Multimodel assessment of the factors driving stratospheric ozone evolution over the 21st century

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Oman, L D ^a,b   Plummer, D A ^c   Waugh, D W ^b   Austin, J ^d   Scinocca, J F ^c   Douglass, A R ^a   Salawitch, R J ^e   Canty, T ^e   Akiyoshi, H ^f   Bekki, S ^g   Braesicke, P ^h   Butchart, N ⁱ   Chipperfield, M P ^j   Cugnet, D ^g   Dhomse, S ^j   Eyring, V ^k   Frith, S ^a,l   Hardiman, S C ⁱ   Kinnison, D E ^m   Lamarque, J F ^m   Mancini, E ⁿ   Marchand, M ^g   Michou, M ^o   Morgenstern, O ^p   Nakamura, T ^f   Nielsen, J E ^a,l   Olivie D ^o   Pitari, G ⁿ   Pyle, J ^h   Rozanov, E ^q,r   Shepherd, T G ^s   Shibata, K ^t   Stolarski, R S ^a,b   Teyssedre H ^o   Tian, W ^j   Yamashita, Y ^f   Ziemke, J R ^a,u   more..

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^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^g SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^k GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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^m NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^o CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

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

^q WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^r ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^t JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^u UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTATINE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE LAYER;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; HIGH LATITUDES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MULTI-MODEL; PARTIAL COLUMNS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; TOTAL COLUMN OZONE;

OZONE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HALOGEN; LATITUDE; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 78249264975     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014362     Document Type: Article

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