Dry deposition of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN): Determination of its deposition velocity at night from measurements of the atmospheric PAN and222Radon concentration gradient

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3599-3602

  Schrimpf, Wolfram ^a   Lienaerts, Karlheinz ^a   Müller, Klaus Peter ^a   Rudolph, Jochen ^a   Neubert, Rolf ^b   Schüler, Wolfram ^b   Levin, Ingeborg ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FREE RADICALS; VELOCITY; AGRICULTURE; EXPERIMENTS; GAS EMISSIONS; NITRATES; RADON;

ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; DRY DEPOSITION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; PEROXYACETYL NITRATES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

DEPOSITION;

ZEA MAYS;

CONCENTRATION GRADIENT; DRY DEPOSITION; NIGHTTIME DEPOSITION VELOCITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PEROXYACETYL NITRATE; POPCORN; VELOCITY;

GERMANY, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0030357913     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03287     Document Type: Article

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