Past and future trends in concentrations of sulphur and nitrogen compounds in the Arctic

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 928-939

  Hole, Lars R ^a,b   Christensen, Jesper H ^c   Ruoho Airola, Tuija ^d   Tørseth, Kjetil ^a   Ginzburg, Veronica ^e   Glowacki, Piotr ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

AMAP; Arctic; Deposition; Monitoring; NHx, SOx; NOx; Precipitation; Trends

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SULFUR;

AMAP; ARCTIC; NHX, SOX; NOX; PRECIPITATION; TRENDS;

NONMETALS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REDUCTION; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ARCTIC; ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 57949101542     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.10.043     Document Type: Article

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