Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates

Science

Volumn 297, Issue 5584, 2002, Pages 1151-1154

  Chuck, Adele L ^a   Turner, Suzanne M ^a   Liss, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITRATES; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

REMOTE MARINE REGIONS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CARBON; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SUPERSATURATION; SURFACE WATER; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TROPOSPHERE; WATER SAMPLING;

AIR POLLUTION; ALGAE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; NITRATES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEAWATER;

EID: 0037119603     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1073896     Document Type: Article

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30. A.L.C. was funded by a Natural Environmental Research Council Studentship (GT04/98/75/MS). We thank K. Clemitshaw for donating pure solutions of methyl nitrate and ethyl nitrate, H. Wilson for collecting and analyzing the chlorophyll a data during AMT 9, and the officers and crews of the RRS James Clark Ross and RV Polarstern. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.