Atmospheric 222Rn measurements during the 1993 NARE Intensive

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 101, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 29149-29164

  Zaucker, Fritz ^a,b,c   Daum, Peter H ^d   Wetterauer, Uli ^e   Berkowitz, Carl ^f   Kromer, Bernd ^e   Broecker, Wallace S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR MASSES; ATMOSPHERIC TRACER; NARE; RADON ISOTOPE; RADON ISOTOPES; TRACERS;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030433244     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jd02029     Document Type: Article

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