Chemical ozone depletion in the 1999/2000 Arctic polar vortex prior to the vortex breakup
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Quantification of the impact in mid-latitudes of chemical ozone depletion in the 1999/2000 Arctic polar vortex prior to the vortex breakup G. Koch, H. Wernli, S. Buss, J. Staehelin, T. Peter, M. A. Liniger, and S. Meilinger IACETH, ETH Zurich, Switzerland MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Received: 24 February 2004 – Accepted: 19 March 2004 – Published: 5 April 2004 Correspondence to: Gisela Koch ([email protected])
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