Constraining the atmospheric N2O budget from intramolecular site preference in N2O isotopomers

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6784, 2000, Pages 330-334

  Yoshida, Naohiro ^a,b   Toyoda, Sakae ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN 15; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; FRACTIONATION; NITRIFICATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0034682268     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012558     Document Type: Article

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