A climatology of the diurnal variations in stratospheric and mesospheric ozone over Bern, Switzerland

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5905-5919

  Studer, S ^a   Hocke, K ^a   Schanz, A ^a   Schmidt, H ^b   Kampfer N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSPHERE; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 85006391446     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-5905-2014     Document Type: Article

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