Polar stratospheric clouds: Satellite observations, processes, and role in ozone depletion

I Tritscher, MC Pitts, LR Poole… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) play important roles in stratospheric ozone depletion
during winter and spring at high latitudes (eg, the Antarctic ozone hole). PSC particles …

Atmospheric aerosols: composition, transformation, climate and health effects

U Pöschl - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols are of central importance for atmospheric chemistry and physics, the biosphere,
climate, and public health. The airborne solid and liquid particles in the nanometer to …

Impact of uncertainties in atmospheric mixing on simulated UTLS composition and related radiative effects

M Riese, F Ploeger, A Rap, B Vogel… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) region plays an important role in the
climate system. Changes in the structure and chemical composition of this region result in …

ML-CIRRUS: The airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude long-range research aircraft HALO

C Voigt, U Schumann, A Minikin… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Midlatitude Cirrus experiment (ML-CIRRUS) deployed the High Altitude and
Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO) to obtain new insights into nucleation, life cycle, and …

Nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) formation at low NAT supersaturation in polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)

C Voigt, H Schlager, BP Luo… - Atmospheric …, 2005 - acp.copernicus.org
A PSC was detected on 6 February 2003 in the Arctic stratosphere by in-situ measurements
onboard the high-altitude research aircraft Geophysica. Low number densities (~ 10-4 cm-3) …

Polar stratospheric cloud microphysics and chemistry

D Lowe, AR MacKenzie - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial …, 2008 - Elsevier
The solid and liquid particles which constitute polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are of
manifold importance to the meteorology of the stratosphere. The heterogeneous reactions …

A stratospheric climatology for O3, H2O, CH4, NOx, HCl and HF derived from HALOE measurements

JU Grooß, JM Russell III - Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 2005 - acp.copernicus.org
The Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) on board the Upper Atmosphere Research
Satellite (UARS) has observed mixing ratios of important trace species in the stratosphere …

A study of stratospheric chlorine partitioning based on new satellite measurements and modeling

ML Santee, IA MacKenzie, GL Manney… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Two recent satellite instruments, the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on Aura and the
Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE‐FTS) on SCISAT …

Contribution of mixing to upward transport across the tropical tropopause layer (TTL)

P Konopka, G Günther, R Müller… - Atmospheric …, 2007 - acp.copernicus.org
During the second part of the TROCCINOX campaign that took place in Brazil in early 2005,
chemical species were measured on-board the high-altitude research aircraft Geophysica …

Tropical troposphere to stratosphere transport of carbon monoxide and long-lived trace species in the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS)

R Pommrich, R Müller, JU Grooß… - Geoscientific Model …, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
Variations in the mixing ratio of trace gases of tropospheric origin entering the stratosphere
in the tropics are of interest for assessing both troposphere to stratosphere transport fluxes in …