Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Michael C. Volk for his suggestions concerning stratospheric transport phenomena. The work is an extended part of a doctorate thesis of Jürgen Grieser, performed at the Centre for Environmental Research of Frankfurt University, Germany. The research was supported by the German Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology (Project number 07KFT120/9).



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