The effect of zonally asymmetric ozone heating on the Northern Hemisphere winter polar stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  McCormack, J P ^a   Nathan, T R ^b   Cordero, E C ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; MODELS; OZONE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; EXTRATROPICAL; MODELING STUDIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ZONAL MEANS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEATING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR MOTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 79751496609     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045937     Document Type: Article

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