A semi-empirical model for mesospheric and stratospheric NOy produced by energetic particle precipitation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 8667-8693

  Funke, Bernd ^a   Lopez Puertas, Manuel ^a   Stiller, Gabriele P ^b   Versick, Stefan ^b   Von Clarmann, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ENVISAT; MESOSPHERE; MIPAS; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SECULAR VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84978698668     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-8667-2016     Document Type: Article

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