Observations of large reductions in the NO/NOy ratio near the mid-latitude tropopause and the role of heterogeneous chemistry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3223-3226

  Keim, E R ^a   Fahey, D W ^a   Del Negro, L A ^a,b   Woodbridge, E L ^a,b   Gao, R S ^a,b   Wennberg, P O ^c   Cohen, R C ^c   Stimpfle, R M ^c   Kelly, K K ^a   Hintsa, E J ^c   Wilson, J C ^d   Jonsson, H H ^d   Dye, J E ^e   Baumgardner, D ^e   Kawa, S R ^f   Salawitch, R J ^g   Proffitt, M H ^a,b   Loewenstein, M ^h   Podolske, J R ^h   Chan, K R ^h  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Denver   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NITROGEN OXIDES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; REACTION KINETICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLOUDS; NASA; NITRIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN REMOVAL; RATE CONSTANTS;

MIDLATITUDE TROPOPAUSE; NITRIC OXIDE REMOVAL; REACTIVE NITROGEN; STRATOSPHERIC PHOTOCHEMISTRY, AEROSOL AND DYNAMICS EXPEDITION;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE NITROGEN; SPADE; TROPOPAUSE;

% REDUCTIONS; CHLORINE MONOXIDE; HETEROGENEOUS CHEMISTRY; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; HYDROPEROXYL RADICAL; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; REACTION RATE CONSTANTS; REACTIVE NITROGEN; STRATOSPHERIC PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0030282731     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02593     Document Type: Article

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