Role of nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere: A reevaluation based on laboratory studies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2387-2390

  Portmann, Robert W ^a   Brown, Steven S ^a   Gierczak, Tomasz ^a,b   Talukdar, Ranajit K ^a,c   Burkholder, James B ^a,c   Ravishankara, A R ^a,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; RATE CONSTANTS; NITRIC ACID;

ANTHROPOGENIC HALOGENS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; NITROGEN OXIDES;

NITROGEN OXIDES; STRATOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE REGIONS; CHEMICAL PARTITIONING; HIGH LATITUDES; LABORATORY STUDIES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; RATE COEFFICIENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

EID: 0033456150     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900499     Document Type: Article

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