Articles | Volume 11, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-4645-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-4645-2011
Research article
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18 May 2011
Research article |  | 18 May 2011

Mesosphere-to-stratosphere descent of odd nitrogen in February–March 2009 after sudden stratospheric warming

S.-M. Salmi, P. T. Verronen, L. Thölix, E. Kyrölä, L. Backman, A. Yu. Karpechko, and A. Seppälä

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