Articles | Volume 13, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8543-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8543-2013
Research article
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02 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 02 Sep 2013

Possible effect of extreme solar energetic particle events of September–October 1989 on polar stratospheric aerosols: a case study

I. A. Mironova and I. G. Usoskin

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