Measurements of stratospheric hydrogen cyanide at McMurdo Station, Antarctica - Further evidence of winter stratospheric subsidence?

• Main Authors: Jaramillo, M., De Zafra, R. L., Barrett, J., Emmons, L. K., Solomon, P. M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: 46; Antarctic; McMurdo Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900031897

Measurements of hydrogen cyanide in the springtime Antarctic stratosphere were made using ground-based millimeter wave spectroscopy. A steeper decrease in volume mixing ratio with altitude was found, than that found at tropical latitudes, from an assumed value of about 160 pptv in the troposphere to...