Link between Antarctic ozone depletion and summer warming over southern Africa

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 934-939

  Manatsa, Desmond ^a,b,c   Morioka, Yushi ^d   Behera, Swadhin K ^b,d   Yamagata, Toshi ^d   Matarira, Caxton H ^a  

^a BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; OZONE DEPLETION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84887068564     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1968     Document Type: Article

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