The role of climate change and ozone recovery for the future timing of major stratospheric warmings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2460-2465

  Ayarzagüena, Blanca ^a   Langematz, Ulrike ^a   Meul, Stefanie ^a   Oberländer, Sophie ^a   Abalichin, Janna ^a   Kubin, Anne ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Major Stratospheric Warmings; ozone recovery; Stratospheric polar vortex

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; OZONE LEVELS; OZONE RECOVERY; POLAR VORTEX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; RECOVERY; VORTEX FLOW;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE DEPLETION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; VORTEX;

EID: 84879963826     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50477     Document Type: Article

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