A reassessment of Antarctic plateau reactive nitrogen based on ANTCI 2003 airborne and ground based measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2831-2848

  Davis, Douglas D ^a   Seelig, Jon ^a   Huey, Greg ^a   Crawford, Jim ^b   Chen, Gao ^b   Wang, Yuhang ^a   Buhr, Marty ^c   Helmig, Detlev ^d   Neff, William ^e   Blake, Don ^f   Arimoto, Rich ^g   Eisele, Fred ^h  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Air Quality Design Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g New Mexico State University   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne profiles; Antarctic plateau; Hydroxyl radicals; Ice core chemical proxies; Nitrate; Nitric oxide; Oxidizing canopy; Reactive nitrogen; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL REACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ICE PROBLEMS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

AIRBORNE PROFILES; HYDROXYL RADICALS; ICE CORE CHEMICAL PROXIES; OXIDIZING CANOPY; REACTIVE NITROGEN;

NITRIC OXIDE;

ICE; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN OXIDE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; SNOW;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ICE CORE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PLATEAU; SNOW;

AIR MONITORING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 40749106561     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.07.039     Document Type: Article

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