Extreme events in total ozone over the Northern mid-latitudes: An analysis based on long-term data sets from five European ground-based stations

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 860-874

  Rieder, Harald E ^a   Jancso, Leonhardt M ^a,b   di Rocco, Stefania ^a,c   Staehelin, Johannes ^a   Maeder, Joerg A ^a   Peter, Thomas ^a   Ribatet, Mathieu ^d,e   Davison, Anthony C ^d   de Backer, Hugo ^f   Koehler, Ulf ^g   Krzyścin, Janusz ^h   Vaníček, Karel ⁱ  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^f ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^g DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

ⁱ CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OZONE; POLAR VORTEX;

AROSA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 80054855230     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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