On the ambiguous nature of the 11 year solar cycle signal in upper stratospheric ozone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 7241-7249

  Dhomse, S S ^a   Chipperfield, M P ^a   Damadeo, R P ^b   Zawodny, J M ^b   Ball, W T ^c   Feng, W ^a   Hossaini, R ^a   Mann, G W ^a   Haigh, J D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c PMOD WRC   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

modeling; solar signal; stratosphere

Indexed keywords

MODELS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SOLAR ENERGY;

11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; HALOGEN OCCULTATION EXPERIMENTS; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SOLAR SIGNALS; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE; SAGE; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR CYCLE; STRATOSPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84978805139     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069958     Document Type: Article

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