Statistical analysis of anthropogenic non-methane VOC variability at a European background location (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3445-3459

  Lanz, V A ^a,c   Henne, S ^a   Staehelin, J ^b   Hueglin, C ^a   Vollmer, M K ^a   Steinbacher, M ^a   Buchmann, B ^a   Reimann, S ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONMETHANE HYDROCARBON; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; ITALY; JUNGFRAUJOCH; PO VALLEY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 72449210540     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-3445-2009     Document Type: Article

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