The dimethyl sulfide reaction with atomic chlorine and its implications for the budget of methyl chloride

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1661-1664

  Langer, Sarka ^a   McGovney, Brian T ^a   Finlayson Pitts, Barbara J ^a   Moore, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHLORINE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATOMS; CHEMISTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN OXIDES; TROPOSPHERE;

ATOMIC CHLORINE; CL-CONCENTRATIONS; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; GLOBAL BUDGET; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; METHYL CHLORIDES; RADIATIVE BALANCE;

BUDGET CONTROL; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ATOMIC CHLORINE; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; METHYL CHLORIDE; RADIATIVE BALANCE;

DIMETHYLSULPHIDE; METHYL CHLORIDE; OCEAN BOUNDARY LAYER; OCEANIC BOUNDARY LAYER; SEAWATER EMISSION;

EID: 0030175521     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01427     Document Type: Article

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