Investigation of the role of the snowpack on atmospheric formaldehyde chemistry at Summit, Greenland

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Dassau, Terra M ^a   Sumner, Ann Louise ^a   Koeniger, Stormy L ^a   Shepson, Paul B ^a,b   Yang, Jie ^c   Honrath, Richard E ^c   Cullen, Nicolas J ^d   Steffen, Konrad ^d   Jacobi, Hans Werner ^e   Frey, Markus ^e   Bales, Roger C ^e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

0322 atmospheric composition and structure: Constituent sources and sinks; 0365 atmospheric composition and structure: Troposphere composition and chemistry; 1863 Hydrology: Snow and ice (1827)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONSTRAINT THEORY; FORMALDEHYDE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

AIR-SNOW INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; DIEL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FORMALDEHYDE; GAS PHASE REACTION; SNOWPACK; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SUMMIT;

EID: 2942686227     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JD002182     Document Type: Article

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