© Author(s) 2008. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics The high Arctic in extreme winters: vortex, temperature, and MLS and ACE-FTS trace gas evolution

• Main Authors: G. L. Manney, W. H. Daffer, K. B. Strawbridge, K. A. Walker, C. D. Boone, P. F. Bernath, T. Kerzenmacher, M. J. Schwartz, K. Strong, R. J. Sica, H. C. Pumphrey, A. Lambert, M. L. Santee, N. J. Livesey, E. E. Remsberg, M. G. Mlynczak, J. R. Russell Iii
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Eureka; Sion
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.662.9486; http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/publications/2008/Manney-ExtremeArcticWinters_ACP.pdf

Abstract. The first three Arctic winters of the ACE mis-sion represented two extremes of winter variability: Strato-spheric sudden warmings (SSWs) in 2004 and 2006 were among the strongest, most prolonged on record; 2005 was a record cold winter. Canadian Arctic Atmospheric Chem-istry Experiment (AC...