Atmospheric chemistry of a 33-34 hour old volcanic cloud from Hekla Volcano (Iceland): Insights from direct sampling and the application of chemical box modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Rose, William I ^a   Millard, Genevieve A ^b   Mather, Tamsin A ^b,c   Hunton, Donald E ^d   Anderson, Bruce ^e   Oppenheimer, Clive ^b   Thornton, Brett F ^f   Gerlach, Terrence M ^g   Viggiano, Albert A ^d   Kondo, Yutaka ^h   Miller, Thomas M ^d   Ballenthin, John O ^d  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLOUDS; GAS EMISSIONS; HALOGEN ELEMENTS; NITROGEN FIXATION; SULFUR; VOLCANOES;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; HALIDE; LIGHTNING; NITROGEN FIXATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC; HEKLA; ICELAND;

EID: 33845639998     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006872     Document Type: Article

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