Changes in Stratospheric Temperatures and Their Implications for Changes in the Brewer-Dobson Circulation, 1979-2005

Seasonally and vertically resolved changes in the strength of the Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) were inferred using temperatures measured by the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU), and radiosondes. Linear trends in an empirically derived "BDC index" (extratr...

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Main Authors: Young, Paul J. (Author), Rosenlof, Karen H. (Author), Solomon, Susan (Contributor), Sherwood, Steven C. (Author), Fu, Qiang (Author), Lamarque, Jean-François (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society, 2018-10-09T19:30:40Z.
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