The role of midlatitude mixing barriers in creating the annual variation of total ozone in high northern latitudes

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 9578-9595

  Gille, John ^a,b   Karol, Svetlana ^b   Kinnison, Douglas ^b   Lamarque, Jean Francois ^b   Yudin, Valery ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; OZONE; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EQUIVALENT LENGTH; HIRDLS; POLAR OZONE; TOTAL COLUMN OZONE; TRACER EQUIVALENT LATITUDE;

OZONE LAYER;

EID: 84906653399     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021416     Document Type: Article

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