Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in a number of atmospheric issues such as midlatitude ozone depletion, atmospheric dynamics and the Earth radiative budget. Polar stratospheric clouds on the other hand are a crucial factor in the yearly Arctic and Antarctic ozone depletion. It is therefore important to quantify the stratospheric aerosol/PSC abundance. In orbit since March 2002, the GOMOS instrument onboard the European Envisat satellite has provided a vast aerosol extinction data set. In this paper we present aerosol/PSC zonal median values that were constructed from this data set, together with a discussion of the results. © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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Vanhellemont, F., Fussen, D., Bingen, C., Kyrölä, E., Tamminen, J., Sofieva, V., … Saavedra, L. (2005). A 2003 stratospheric aerosol extinction and PSC climatology from GOMOS measurements on Envisat. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5(9), 2413–2417. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-2413-2005
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