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Abstract. Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in a number of atmospheric issues such as midlatitude ozone depletion, atmospheric dynamics and the Earth radiative bud-get. Polar stratospheric clouds on the other hand are a crucial factor in the yearly Arctic and Antarctic ozone depletion. I...

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Main Authors: Atmos Chem Phys, Gomos Measurements On Envisat, F. Vanhellemont, D. Fussen, C. Bingen, J. Tamminen, V. Sofieva, S. Hassinen, P. Verronen, J. L. Bertaux, A. Hauchecorne, F. Dalaudier, O. Fanton D’andon, G. Barrot, A. Mangin, B. Theodore, M. Guirlet, J. B. Renard, R. Fraisse, P. Snoeij, R. Koopman, L. Saavedra
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2005
Subjects:
Antarctic
Arctic
Antarc*
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.592.6593
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/32/84/02/PDF/acp-5-2413-2005.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in a number of atmospheric issues such as midlatitude ozone depletion, atmospheric dynamics and the Earth radiative bud-get. Polar stratospheric clouds on the other hand are a crucial factor in the yearly Arctic and Antarctic ozone depletion. It is therefore important to quantify the stratospheric aerosol/PSC abundance. In orbit since March 2002, the GOMOS instru-ment onboard the European Envisat satellite has provided a vast aerosol extinction data set. In this paper we present aerosol/PSC zonal median values that were constructed from this data set, together with a discussion of the results. 1

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