Continental outflow from the US to the upper troposphere over the North Atlantic during the NASA INTEX-NA Airborne Campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1989-2005

  Kim, S Y ^a   Talbot, R ^a   Mao, H ^a   Blake, D ^b   Vay, S ^c   Fuelberg, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONYL COMPOUND; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OUTFLOW; SULFIDE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 41849151134     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-1989-2008     Document Type: Article

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