Estimating the contribution of bromoform to stratospheric bromine and its relation to dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4755-4761

  Sinnhuber, B M ^a   Folkins, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BROMINE; BROMINE COMPOUND; DEGRADATION; DEHYDRATION; HUMIDITY; ICE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 33750350730     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-4755-2006     Document Type: Article

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