The impact of stratospheric ozone changes on downward wave coupling in the Southern Hemisphere

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4210-4229

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a   Perlwitz, Judith ^b,e   Harnik, Nili ^c   Newman, Paul A ^d   Pawson, Steven ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Ozone; Southern hemisphere; Stratosphere troposphere coupling; Wave; Wave properties

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED WAVES; BREAK-UP DATE; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; DATA SETS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MODEL SIMULATION; NEW MECHANISMS; OZONE CHANGES; OZONE DEPLETION; OZONE RECOVERY; PLANETARY WAVES; REANALYSIS; REFLECTING SURFACE; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; WAVE COUPLING; WAVE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHLORINE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH (PLANET); GEOMETRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA SET; EOS; GREENHOUSE GAS; OZONE; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION;

EID: 80052629062     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4170.1     Document Type: Article

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