Distribution of reactive nitrogen species in the remote free troposphere: Data and model comparisons

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1403-1422

  Thakur, A N ^a   Singh, H B ^a   Mariani, P ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Wang, Y ^b   Jacob, D J ^b   Brasseur, G ^c   Muller J F ^d   Lawrence, M ^e  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global models; Nitrogen oxides; Ozone; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TROPOSPHERE;

NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

NITROGEN; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0033120272     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00281-7     Document Type: Article

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