Biomass burning as a source of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, methanol, acetone, acetonitrile, and hydrogen cyanide

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1161-1164

  Holzinger, Rupert ^a   Wameke, Carsten ^a   Hansel, Armin ^a   Jordan, Alfons ^a   Lindinger, Werner ^a   Scharffe, Dieter H ^b   Schade, Gunnar ^b   Crutzen, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ACETONITRILE; ALDEHYDES; COMBUSTION; CYANIDES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANOL; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REACTION KINETICS; ACETALDEHYDE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PROTON TRANSFER;

ACETALDEHYDE; PROTON TRANSFER MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BIOMASS;

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETONE; BIOMASS BURNING; CYANIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANOL;

BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; MEASUREMENTS OF; PHOTOCHEMICAL DECAY; PROTON-TRANSFER REACTION MASS SPECTROMETRIES; SOURCE STRENGTH;

EID: 0033560483     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900156     Document Type: Article

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