Observations of total peroxy nitrates and aldehydes: Measurement interpretation and inference of OH radical concentrations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1947-1960

  Cleary, P A ^a,d   Wooldridge, P J ^a   Millet, D B ^b,e   McKay, M ^b   Goldstein, A H ^b,c   Cohen, R C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA INTERPRETATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PEROXYACETYL NITRATE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; GRANITE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247385974     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-1947-2007     Document Type: Article

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