Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7587-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7587-2013
Research article
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06 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 06 Aug 2013

Diurnal variation of stratospheric and lower mesospheric HOCl, ClO and HO2 at the equator: comparison of 1-D model calculations with measurements by satellite instruments

M. Khosravi, P. Baron, J. Urban, L. Froidevaux, A. I. Jonsson, Y. Kasai, K. Kuribayashi, C. Mitsuda, D. P. Murtagh, H. Sagawa, M. L. Santee, T. O. Sato, M. Shiotani, M. Suzuki, T. von Clarmann, K. A. Walker, and S. Wang

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