First space-based observations of formic acid (HCOOH): Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment austral spring 2004 and 2005 Southern Hemisphere tropical-mid-latitude upper tropospheric measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Rinsland, Curtis P ^a   Boone, Chris D ^b   Bernath, Peter F ^b   Mahieu, Emmanuel ^c   Zander, Rodolphe ^c   Dufour, Gaëlle ^d   Clerbaux, Cathy ^e   Turquety, Solène ^e   Chiou, Linda ^f   McConnell, John C ^g   Neary, Lori ^g   Kaminski, Jacek W ^g  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^f SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^g YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FORMIC ACID; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

AUSTRAL SPRING; MIXING RATIO; SOLAR OCCULTATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FORMIC ACID; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MIXING RATIO; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34250216582     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027128     Document Type: Article

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