Observed and modelled record ozone decline over the Arctic during winter/spring 2011

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Balis, D ^a   Isaksen, I S A ^b   Zerefos, C ^c,d   Zyrichidou, I ^a   Eleftheratos, K ^c   Tourpali, K ^a   Bojkov, R ^a   Rognerud, B ^b   Stordal, F ^b   Sovde O A ^e   Orsolini, Y ^f  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d Navarino Environmental Observatory   (Greece)

^e CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; OZONE LAYER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLD TEMPERATURES; COLUMN OZONE; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OZONE COLUMN; OZONE DEPLETION; OZONE LOSS; POLAR LATITUDE; POLAR REGIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SIMILAR MODELS; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE DATA; ZONAL MEANS;

OZONE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; GOME; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OZONE DEPLETION; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STRATOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 82955184579     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049259     Document Type: Article

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