The impact of meteorology on the internannual growth rate of atmospheric methane

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 8-1

  Warwick, N J ^a   Bekki, S ^b   Law, K S ^a   Nisbet, E G ^c   Pyle, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; METHANE; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANE;

METEOROLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; METEOROLOGY; METHANE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; GLOBAL GROWTH RATE; INTERANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

EID: 0037110258     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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