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Sabutis 1989
Sabutis, J.L. (1989). An observational study of the southern stratospheric spring wave features during 1979-1982, utilizing TOMS data. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/89JD00221. issn: 0148-0227.

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data during the southern hemisphere spring are analyzed to obtain time-mean and transient wave amplitudes for zonal wave numbers 1-10. It is found that at latitudes south 50¿S, the October total ozone is dominated by the wave number 1 time-mean component, with largest amplitudes occurring in 1979 and 1982. The November wave number 1 time-mean amplitudes are reduced from their October values; the largest reductions occur in 1979 to 1982. In contrast, at 40¿--45¿S the transient amplitudes are dominant. Phases angles for time-mean wave number 1 are also presented and little year-to-year variation is noted south of 50¿S. Also obtained with these data are traveling wave power and coherence-squared spectra. The spectra for eastward traveling features having zonal wave numbers 1--3 are presented. All of these wave numbers exhibit eastward traveling features at high latitudes, with no evidence of westward traveling features. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Middle atmosphere dynamics
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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