TTL cooling and drying during the January 2013 stratospheric sudden warming

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 693, 2015, Pages 3030-3039

  Evan, Stephanie ^a   Rosenlof, K H ^b   Thornberry, Troy ^b,c   Rollins, Andrew ^b,c   Khaykin, Sergey ^d  

^a Laboratoire de l Atmosphère et des Cyclones   (France)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Sudden stratospheric warming; TTL; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CLOUDS; COOLING; TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUITS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WIND EFFECTS;

IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PRODUCTS; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; WATER VAPOUR;

TROPICS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOLING; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84952299358     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2587     Document Type: Article

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