Nitric acid, particulate nitrate and ammonium in the continental free troposphere: Nitrogen deposition to an alpine tundra ecosystem

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2527-2537

  Sievering, Herman ^a,b,c   Rusch, Dawn ^a   Marquez, Lori ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Merco Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Deposition; Ecosystem; Nitric acid; Nitrogen; Tropospheric; Tundra

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; SNOW;

ARTICLE; DRY DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; METEOROLOGY; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; NITRATES; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PLANTS (BOTANY); SAMPLING; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

AMMONIUM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLING; DRY DEPOSITION; MINERALIZATION; TUNDRA;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALPINE ECOSYSTEM; AMMONIUM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEPOSITION; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; TUNDRA;

USA, COLORADO, NIWOT RIDGE;

EID: 0029663010     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00463-7     Document Type: Article

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