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Atmosphere-Ocean - December 2005 MANTRA Special Issue:
http://www.cmos.ca/Ao/articles/chrono.html
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions - 2006/2007 MANTRA Special Issue:
http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/special_issue30.html
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - 2007/2008 MANTRA Special Issue:
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/special_issue77.html

  1. M.R. Bassford, C.A. McLinden, and K. Strong. Zenith-Sky Observations of Stratospheric Gases: The Sensitivity of Air Mass Factors to Geophysical Parameters and the Influence of Tropospheric Clouds. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 68, 657-677, 2001.
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  1. B.M. Quine, K. Strong, A. Wiacek, D. Wunch, J.A. Anstey, and J.R. Drummond. Scanning the Earth's Limb from a High-Altitude Balloon: the Development and Flight of a New Balloon-Based Pointing System. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technology, 19, 618-632, 2002.
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  1. K. Strong, G. Bailak, D. Barton, M.R. Bassford, R.D. Blatherwick, S. Brown, D. Chartrand, J. Davies, J.R. Drummond, P.F. Fogal, E. Forsberg, R. Hall, A. Jofre, J. Kaminski, J. Kosters, C. Laurin, J.C. McConnell, C.T. McElroy, C.A. McLinden, S.M.L. Melo, K. Menzies, C. Midwinter, F.J. Murcray, C. Nowlan, R.J. Olson, B.M. Quine, Y. Rochon, V. Savastiouk, B. Solheim, D. Sommerfeldt, A. Ullberg, S. Werchohlad, H. Wu, and D. Wunch. MANTRA – A Balloon Mission to Study the Odd-Nitrogen Budget of the Stratosphere. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 283-299, 2005. This special issue included a cover photograph.
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  1. D. Wunch, M.P. Tingley, T.G. Shepherd, J.R. Drummond, G.W.K. Moore, and K. Strong. Climatology and Predictability of the Late Summer Stratospheric Zonal Wind Turnaround over Vanscoy, Saskatchewan. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 301-313, 2005.
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  1. V. Savastiouk and C.T. McElroy. Brewer Spectrophotometer Total Ozone Measurements Made During the 1998 Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen Trend Assessment (MANTRA) Campaign. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 315-324, 2005.
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  1. M.R. Bassford, K. Strong, C.A. McLinden, and C.T. McElroy. Ground-Based Measurements of Ozone and NO2 during MANTRA 1998 Using a New Zenith-Sky Spectrometer. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 325-338, 2005.
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  1. S.M.L. Melo, K. Strong, M.R. Bassford, K.E. Preston, C.T. McElroy, E.V. Rozanov, and T. Egorova. Retrieval of Stratospheric NO2 Vertical Profiles from Ground-Based Measurements: Results for the MANTRA 1998 Field Campaign. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 339-350, 2005.
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  1. P.F. Fogal, R.D. Blatherwick, F.J. Murcray, and J.R. Olson. Infra-red FTS Measurements of CH4, N2O, O3, HNO3, HCl, CFC-11 and CFC-12 from the MANTRA Balloon Campaign. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 351-359, 2005.
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  1. B.M. Quine, M. Toohey, J.R. Drummond, K. Strong, D. Wunch, C. Midwinter, and C.T. McElroy. Profile Results from Emission Radiometers Flown on the MANTRA 1998 Balloon Mission, Sask-atoon, Canada. Atmos.-Ocean, 43 (4), 361-376, 2005.
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  1. Fromm, M., R. Bevilacqua, R. Servranckx, J. Rosen, J. P. Thayer, J. Herman, and D. Larko (2005), Pyro-cumulonimbus injection of smoke to the stratosphere: Observations and impact of a super blowup in northwestern Canada on 3–4 August 1998, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D08205, doi:10.1029/2004JD005350.
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  1.  D. Wunch, C. Midwinter, J.R. Drummond, C.T. McElroy, and A.-F. Bages. The University of Toronto’s Balloon-Borne Fourier Transform Spectrometer, Rev. Sci. Inst., 77, 093104, 2006.
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  1. D. Fu, K.A. Walker, K. Sung, C.D. Boone, M.-A. Soucy, P.F. Bernath. The Portable Atmospheric Research Interferometric Spectrometer for the Infrared, PARIS-IR. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Trans., 103 (2), 362-370, 2007.
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  1.  G. Wetzel, A. Bracher, B. Funke, F. Goutail, F. Hendrick, J.-C. Lambert, S. Mikuteit, C. Piccolo, M. Pirre, A. Bazureau, C. Belotti, T. Blumenstock, M. De Mazire, H. Fischer, N. Huret, D. Ionov, M. Lopez-Puertas, G. Maucher, H. Oelhaf, J.-P. Pommereau, R. Ruhnke, M. Sinnhuber, G. Stiller, M. Van Roozendael, and G. Zhang, Validation of MIPAS-ENVISAT NO2 operational data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 3261-3284, 2007.
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  1. L.J. Kovalenko, et al., Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder BrO observations in the stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S41, doi:10.1029/2007JD008817, 2007.
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  1. D. Wunch, J.R. Taylor, D. Fu, P.F. Bernath, J.R. Drummond, C. Midwinter, K. Strong, and K.A. Walker. Simultaneous Ground-Based Observations of O3, HCl, N2O, and CH4 over Toronto, Canada by Three Fourier Transform Spectrometers with Different Resolutions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (MANTRA Special Issue), 7, 1275–1292, 2007.
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  1. A. Fraser, F. Goutail, C.A. McLinden, S.M.L. Melo, and K. Strong. Lightning-produced NOx Observed by Ground-based UV-Visible Spectrometers at Vanscoy, Saskatchewan in August 2004. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (MANTRA Special Issue), 7, 1683–1692, 2007.
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  1.  U. Cortesi, J. C. Lambert, C. De Clercq, G. Bianchini, T. Blumenstock, A. Bracher, E. Castelli, V. Catoire, K. V. Chance, M. De Mazière, P. Demoulin, S. Godin-Beekmann, N. Jones, K. Jucks, C. Keim, T. Kerzenmacher, H. Kuellmann, J. Kuttippurath, M. Iarlori, G. Y. Liu, Y. Liu, I. S. McDermid, Y. J. Meijer, F. Mencaraglia, S. Mikuteit, H. Oelhaf, C. Piccolo, M. Pirre, P. Raspollini, F. Ravegnani, W. J. Reburn, G. Redaelli, J. J. Remedios, H. Sembhi, D. Smale, T. Steck, A. Taddei, C. Varotsos, C. Vigouroux, A. Waterfall, G. Wetzel, and S. Wood. Geophysical validation of MIPAS-ENVISAT operational ozone data. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 4807-4867, 2007.
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  1. A. Fraser, P. F. Bernath, R. D. Blatherwick, J. R. Drummond, P. F. Fogal, D. Fu, F. Goutail, T. E. Kerzenmacher, C. T. McElroy, C. Midwinter, J. R. Olson, K. Strong, K. A. Walker, D. Wunch, and I. J. Young. Intercomparison of ground-based ozone and NO2 measurements during the MANTRA 2004 campaign. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (MANTRA Special Issue), 7, 5489-5499, 2007.
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  1. M. Toohey, B. M. Quine, K. Strong, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, A. I. Jonsson, C. T. McElroy, K. A. Walker, and D. Wunch. Balloon-borne radiometer measurements of Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude stratospheric HNO3 profiles spanning 12 years. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (MANTRA Special Issue), 7, 6075-6084, 2007.
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  1. D. Pendlebury, T. G. Shepherd, M. Pritchard, and C. McLandress.  Normal mode Rossby waves and their effects on chemical composition in the late summer stratosphere.  Atmos. Chem. Phys. (MANTRA Special Issue), 8, 1925-1935, 2008.
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  1. S.M.L. Melo, R. Blatherwick, J. Davies, P. Fogal, J. de Grandpré, J. McConnell, C.T. McElroy, C. McLandress, F.J. Murcray, J.R. Olson, K. Semeniuk, T.G. Shepherd, K. Strong, D. Tarasick and B.J. Williams-Rioux. Summertime stratospheric processes at northern mid-latitudes: comparisons between MANTRA balloon measurements and the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (MANTRA Special Issue), 8, 2057-2071, 2008.
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  1. J.R. Taylor, D. Wunch, C. Midwinter, A. Wiacek, J.R. Drummond, and K. Strong, An Extended Intercomparison of Simultaneous Ground-Based Fourier Transform Spectrometer Measurements at the Toronto Atmospheric Observatory. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 109 (12-13), 2244-2260, 2008.
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  1. F. Jégou, J. Urban, J. de La Noë, P. Ricaud, E. Le Flochmoën, D. P. Murtagh, P. Eriksson, A. Jones, S. Petelina, E. J. Llewellyn, N. D. Lloyd, C. Haley, J. Lumpe, C. Randall, R. M. Bevilacqua, V. Catoire, N. Huret, G. Berthet, J. B. Renard, K. Strong, J. Davies, C. T. Mc Elroy, F. Goutail, and J. P. Pommereau. Technical Note: Validation of Odin/SMR limb observations of ozone, comparisons with OSIRIS, POAM III, ground-based and balloon-borne instruments. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8, 3385-3409, 2008.
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  1. T. Kerzenmacher, M.A. Wolff, K. Strong, E. Dupuy, K.A. Walker, L.K. Amekudzi, R.L. Batchelor, P.F. Bernath, G. Berthet, T. Blumenstock, C.D. Boone, K. Bramstedt, C. Brogniez, S. Brohede, J.P. Burrows, V. Catoire, J. Dodion, J.R. Drummond, D.G. Dufour, B. Funke, D. Fussen, F. Goutail, D.W.T. Griffith, C.S. Haley, F. Hendrick, M. Höpfner, N. Huret, N. Jones, J. Kar, I. Kramer, E.J. Llewellyn, M. López-Puertas, G. Manney, C.T. McElroy, C.A. McLinden, S. Melo, S. Mikuteit, D. Murtagh, F. Nichitiu, J. Notholt, C. Nowlan, C. Piccolo, J.-P. Pommereau, C. Randall, P. Raspollini, M. Ridolfi, A. Richter, M. Schneider, O. Schrems, M. Silicani, G.P. Stiller, J. Taylor, C. Tétard, M. Toohey, F. Vanhellemont, T. Warneke, J.M. Zawodny, and J. Zou. Validation of NO2 and NO from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE), Atmos. Chem. Phys. (ACE Validation Special Issue), 8, 5801-5841, 2008.
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  1. D.W. Tarasick, D.I. Wardle, C.T. McElroy, C. McLinden, S. Brown, and B. Solheim. UV spectral measurements at moderately high resolution and of OH resonance scattering resolved by polarization during the MANTRA 2002-2004 stratospheric balloon flights, JQSRT, 110, 205-222, 2009.
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Non-Refereed Publications

  1. K. Strong. Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen Trend Assessment (MANTRA) 1998 Balloon Campaign. CMOS Bulletin, 33 (6), 173-174, December 2005. Invited contribution with cover photograph.
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Maintained by: Kimberly Strong

Last updated: 22 July 2009