The oceans: A source or a sink of methyl bromide?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 817-820

  Pilinis, Christodoulos ^a   King, Daniel B ^a   Saltzman, Eric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; EXTRAPOLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE WATERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CURRENT ESTIMATES; HIGHER LATITUDES; PRODUCTION RATES; SATURATION ANOMALIES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIPBOARD MEASUREMENTS; SLOW DEGRADATION; STEADY STATE PRODUCTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

METHYL BROMIDE;

AIR-SEA FLUX; BROMIDES; METHYL BROMIDE; SOURCE/SINK;

EID: 0029667070     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00424     Document Type: Article

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