Airborne CH2O measurements over the North Atlantic during the 1997 NARE campaign: Instrument comparisons and distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2002, Pages

  Fried, Alan ^a   Lee, Yin Nan ^b   Frost, Greg ^c,d   Wert, Bryan ^a,d   Henry, Bruce ^a   Drummond, James R ^e   Hübler, Gerd ^c,d   Jobson, Tom ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne measurements; Airborne measurements of formaldehyde; Formaldehyde; Formaldehyde measurement comparisons; North Atlantic Regional Experiment measurements; Tunable diode laser measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448959469     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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