Denitrification and polar stratospheric cloud formation during the Arctic winter 2009/2010

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 8471-8487

  Khosrawi, F ^a   Urban, J ^b   Pitts, M C ^c   Voelger, P ^d   Achtert, P ^a   Kaphlanov, M ^a   Santee, M L ^e   Manney, G L ^e   Murtagh, D ^b   Fricke, K H ^f  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CALIPSO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENITRIFICATION; LIDAR; NITRIC ACID; OZONE DEPLETION; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; RADIOMETER; SEDIMENTATION;

ARCTIC; KIRUNA; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 80051919137     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-8471-2011     Document Type: Article

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