Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 1379-1394

  Ball, William T ^a,b   Alsing, Justin ^c,d   Mortlock, Daniel J ^d,e   Staehelin, Johannes ^b   Haigh, Joanna D ^d   Peter, Thomas ^b   Tummon, Fiona ^b   Stübi, Rene ^f   Stenke, Andrea ^b   Anderson, John ^g   Bourassa, Adam ^h   Davis, Sean M ^i,j   Degenstein, Doug ^h   Frith, Stacey ^k,l   Froidevaux, Lucien ^m   Roth, Chris ^h   Sofieva, Viktoria ⁿ   Wang, Ray ^o   Wild, Jeannette ^j,p   Yu, Pengfei ^i,j   Ziemke, Jerald R ^k,q   Rozanov, Eugene V ^a,b   more..

^a WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c FLATIRON INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^g HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^k NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^l SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^o GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p Innovim   (United States)

^q MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; OXYGEN; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 85041684300     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-1379-2018     Document Type: Article

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