Nighttime secondary ozone layer during major stratospheric sudden warmings in specified-dynamics WACCM

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8346-8358

  Tweedy, Olga V ^a,b   Limpasuvan, Varavut ^a   Orsolini, Yvan J ^c,d   Smith, Anne K ^e   Garcia, Rolando R ^e   Kinnison, Doug ^e   Randall, Cora E ^f   Kvissel, Ole Kristian ^g   Stordal, Frode ^g   Harvey, V Lynn ^f   Chandran, Amal ^h  

^a E Craig Wall Sr College of Business Administration   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Norwegian Institute for Atmospheric Research ^*  (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical transport; MLT dynamics; secondary ozone maximum; Sudden Stratospheric Warming

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; NASA; OZONE LAYER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT; MESOSPHERE-LOWER THERMOSPHERES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; OZONE MAXIMUMS; SOUNDING OF THE ATMOSPHERE USING BROADBAND EMISSION RADIOMETRY; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; THERMOSPHERE IONOSPHERE MESOSPHERE ENERGETICS AND DYNAMICS; WHOLE ATMOSPHERE COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 84884137936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50651     Document Type: Article

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