Measurement of methanol emissions from Australian wildfires by ground-based solar Fourier transform spectroscopy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Paton Walsh, Clare ^a   Wilson, Stephen R ^a   Jones, Nicholas B ^a   Griffith, David W T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CORRELATION METHODS; DEFORESTATION; DEPOSITS; DISASTERS; FIRES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FORESTRY; FORMALDEHYDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METHANE; METHANOL; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH (AOD); AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; AUSTRALIA; EMISSION FACTOR (EF); EMISSIONS (ASPHALT); FOREST FIRES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FT-IR); FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY (FTS); GROUND-BASED; SMOKE PLUMES; STRONG CORRELATIONS; TROPICAL FORESTS;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANOL; OPTICAL DEPTH; SMOKE; TROPICAL FOREST; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WILDFIRE;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION; FOREST FIRES; FORMALDEHYDE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METHANE; METHANOL; SMOKE; VOC;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 48249143243     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032951     Document Type: Article

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