Quantifying stratospheric ozone trends: Complications due to stratospheric cooling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  McLinden, C A ^a,b   Fioletov, V ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; TIME SERIES;

AIR DENSITY; FUNCTION OF PRESSURE; NUMBER DENSITY; OZONE RECOVERY; OZONE TRENDS; PARTIAL COLUMNS; PROFILE DATA; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE;

OZONE LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COOLING; DATA INTERPRETATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; OZONE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79751503186     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046012     Document Type: Article

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