The high Arctic in extreme winters: vortex, temperature, and MLS and ACE-FTS trace gas evolution

• Main Authors: Manney, G. L., Daffer, W. H., Strawbridge, K. B., Walker, K. A., Boone, C. D., Bernath, P. F., Kerzenmacher, T., Schwartz, M. J., Strong, K., Sica, R. J., Krüger, K., Pumphrey, H. C., Lambert, A., Santee, M. L., Livesey, N. J., Remsberg, E. E., Mlynczak, M. G., Russell Iii, J. R.
• Other Authors: Department of Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology New Mexico Tech (NMT), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA, Columbus Technologies Inc., Science and Technology Branch, Department of Chemistry Waterloo, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Department of Physics Toronto, University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry York, UK, University of York York, UK, Department of Physics and Astronomy London, ON, University of Western Ontario (UWO), Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), School of Geosciences Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, NASA Headquarters, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Hampton (APS), Hampton University
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Arctic; Eureka
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00296431; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00296431/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00296431/file/acp-8-505-2008.pdf

International audience The first three Arctic winters of the ACE mission represented two extremes of winter variability: Stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs) in 2004 and 2006 were among the strongest, most prolonged on record; 2005 was a record cold winter. Canadian Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry Expe...