Oceanic bromoform sources for the tropical atmosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Quack, B ^a   Atlas, E ^b,c   Petrick, G ^a   Stroud, V ^b   Schauffler, S ^b   Wallace, D W R ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

0312 Armospheric Composition and Structure: Air sea constituent fluxes (3339, 4504); 0315 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Biosphere atmosphere interactions; 0322 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Constituent sources and sinks; 1635 Global Change: Oceans (4203); 4820 Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Gases

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OZONE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATIONS; OCEANIC BROMOFORM; OZONE DEPLETION; TROPICAL THERMOCLINE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; BROMINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16644401715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020597     Document Type: Article

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