Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2531-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2531-2013
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05 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 05 Mar 2013

Lifetime and production rate of NOx in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere in the polar spring/summer after the solar proton event in October–November 2003

F. Friederich, T. von Clarmann, B. Funke, H. Nieder, J. Orphal, M. Sinnhuber, G. P. Stiller, and J. M. Wissing

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