A global historical ozone data set and prominent features of stratospheric variability prior to 1979

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 9623-9639

  Bronnimann S ^a   Bhend, J ^b   Franke, J ^a   Fluckiger S ^a   Fischer, A M ^c   Bleisch, R ^a   Bodeker, G ^d   Hassler, B ^e,f   Rozanov, E ^g,h   Schraner, M ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^d BODEKER SCIENTIFIC   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^h Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Centro Svizzero Di Calcolo Scientifico   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR CYCLE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION;

EID: 84884899208     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-9623-2013     Document Type: Article

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