Global distribution of upper tropospheric formic acid from the ACE-FTS

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8039-8047

  Abad, G González ^a   Bernath, P F ^a   Boone, C D ^b   McLeod, S D ^b   Manney, G L ^c,d   Toon, G C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BALLOON OBSERVATION; BIOMASS BURNING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORMIC ACID; FOURIER TRANSFORM; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 70450242607     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-8039-2009     Document Type: Article

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