Evidence for an earlier greenhouse cooling effect in the stratosphere before 1980 over the Northern Hemisphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 7705-7720

  Zerefos, C S ^a,b   Tourpali, K ^c   Zanis, P ^c   Eleftheratos, K ^d   Repapis, C ^a,i   Goodman, A ^e   Wuebbles, D ^f   Isaksen, I S A ^g   Luterbacher, J ^h  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b Navarino Environmental Observatory NEO   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^h JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ Mariolopoulos Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences   (Greece)

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EID: 84905492688     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-7705-2014     Document Type: Article

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