Denitrification in the Arctic mid-winter 2004/2005 observed by airborne submillimeter radiometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Kleinböhl, Armin ^a   Bremer, Holger ^b   Küllman, Harry ^b   Kuttippurath, Jayanarayanan ^b   Browell, Edward V ^c   Canty, Timothy ^a   Salawitch, Ross J ^a   Toon, Geoffrey C ^a   Notholt, Justus ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NITRIC ACID; RADIOMETRY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

AIRBORNE SUBMILLIMETER RADIOMETER; POLAR AURA VALIDATION EXPERIMENT (PAVE); POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS (PSC);

DENITRIFICATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

AIRBORNE SUBMILLIMETER RADIOMETER; BACK TRAJECTORIES; MEASUREMENTS OF; MIXING RATIOS; POLAR AURA VALIDATION EXPERIMENTS; SEDIMENTING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBMILLIMETERS;

EID: 28144441343     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023408     Document Type: Article

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