Wetlands: A potentially significant source of atmospheric methyl bromide and methyl chloride

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2433-2435

  Varner, Ruth K ^a   Crill, Patrick M ^a   Talbot, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WETLANDS; BUDGET CONTROL; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC BUDGETS; GLOBAL ANNUAL FLUX; METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL CHLORIDE; OZONE DEPLETION POTENTIAL; TRACE GASES; ATMOSPHERIC BUDGET; ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIME; DEPLETION POTENTIAL; GROWING SEASON; METHYL CHLORIDES; NEW SOURCES; TIME-PERIODS;

GAS EMISSIONS; WETLANDS;

BROMINE; CHLORINE; RADICAL; TROPOSPHERE; WETLAND;

EID: 0033401502     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900587     Document Type: Article

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