Stratospheric BrO profiles measured at different latitudes and seasons: Atmospheric observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3843-3846

  Harder, H ^a,c   Camy Peyret, C ^a,b   Ferlemann, F ^a   Fitzenberger, R ^a   Hawat, T ^a,b   Osterkamp, H ^a   Schneider, M ^a   Perner, D ^a,c   Platt, U ^a   Vradelis, P ^a   Pfeilsticker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BALLOONS; BROMINE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; FLUORESCENCE; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; CHEMICAL CONVERSIONS; COLUMN MEASUREMENTS; FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUE; GROUND BASED; MIXING RATIOS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

BROMINE OXIDE; DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY (DOAS);

EID: 0032179977     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900026     Document Type: Article

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