The photochemistry of acetone in the upper troposphere: A source of odd-hydrogen radicals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3177-3180

  McKeen, S A ^a,b   Gierczak, T ^a,b,c   Burkholder, J B ^a,b   Wennberg, P O ^d   Hanisco, T F ^d   Keim, E R ^a,b   Gao, R S ^a,b   Liu, S C ^a,e   Ravishankara, A R ^a,b   Fahey, D W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HYDROGEN; NASA; TROPOSPHERE; ACETONE; CALCULATIONS; DISSOCIATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN RADICAL; LABORATORY DATUM; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE CHARACTERISTICS; STRATOSPHERIC TRACERS; TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTIC; TRACE GAS CONCENTRATIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

ACETONE; TROPOSPHERE;

ODD-HYDROGEN RADICALS;

ACETONE; HYDROGEN RADICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0031390895     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03349     Document Type: Article

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