Daily ozone cycle in the stratosphere: Global, regional and seasonal behaviour modelled with the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 7645-7663

  Schanz, A ^a   Hocke, K ^a   Kampfer N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84905247915     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-7645-2014     Document Type: Article

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