Seasonal variation of tropospheric methyl bromide concentrations: Constraints on anthropogenic input

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2797-2800

  Wingenter, Oliver W ^a,b   Wang, Charles J L ^a,c   Blake, Donald R ^a   Rowland, F Sherwood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effect; Methyl bromide; Seasonality; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

INTERHEMISPHERIC CONCENTRATION RATIO; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERIC METHYL BROMIDE; ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; BR CONCENTRATIONS; CONCENTRATION RATIO; RADICAL CONCENTRATION; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; METHYL BROMIDE; SEASONALITY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032148172     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02179     Document Type: Article

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