Snowpack production of formaldehyde and its effect on the Arctic troposphere

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6724, 1999, Pages 230-233

  Sumner, Ann Louise ^a   Shepson, Paul B ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANE; OZONE; RADICAL; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; FORMALDEHYDE; OZONE; SNOW;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0033580396     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18423     Document Type: Article

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