GOME observations of tropospheric BrO in Northern Hemispheric spring and summer 1997

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2683-2686

  Richter, Andreas ^a   Wittrock, Folkard ^a   Eisinger, Michael ^a,b   Burrows, John P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric chemistry; Bromine compound; Ozone; Summer

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; TROPOSPHERE; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERIC SPRING; BACKGROUND CONDITIONS; BRO COLUMNS; CANADIAN ARCTIC; COAST LINES; GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENTS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; HIGH ARCTIC; LOCAL SOURCE;

OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BROMINE COMPOUND; OZONE; SUMMER;

EID: 0032129124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL52016     Document Type: Article

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