Extending records of the isotopic compositions of atmospheric N2O back to 1800 A.D. from air trapped in snow at the South Pole and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project II ice core

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 76-1

  Sowers, Todd ^a   Rodebaugh, Amy ^a   Yoshida, Naohiro ^b   Toyoda, Sakne ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic N2O; Isotopes; Isotopomers; N2O; N2O isotopes; Nitrous oxide

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; HISTORICAL RECORD; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROUS OXIDE; PALEOATMOSPHERE;

EID: 0038034376     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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