Effects of the quasi-biennial oscillation and stratospheric semiannual oscillation on tracer transport in the upper stratosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1370-1389

  Shu, Jianchuan ^a   Tian, Wenshou ^a   Hu, Dingzhu ^a   Zhang, Jiankai ^a   Shang, Lin ^a   Tian, Hongying ^a   Xie, Fei ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROCESS; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; EQUATORIAL STRATOSPHERE; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS;

GRAVITY WAVES; MIXING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GRAVITY WAVE; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TRACER;

EID: 84877350388     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-053.1     Document Type: Article

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