Identification and quantification of methyl halide sources in a lowland tropical rainforest

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1005-1010

  Blei, Emanuel ^a   Hardacre, Catherine J ^a   Mills, Graham P ^b   Heal, Kate V ^a   Heal, Mathew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CH3Br; CH3Cl; Dipterocarp; Emission; Rainforest; South east Asia; Stratospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RADIATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; DIPTEROCARPS; DOMINANT FACTOR; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; LEAF LITTER; MALAYSIANS; METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL CHLORIDES; METHYL HALIDES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLANT SPECIES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FORESTRY; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SUN; TROPICS;

VEGETATION;

METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL CHLORIDE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HALIDE; LEAF LITTER; METHANE; METHYL CHLORIDE; OZONE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RAINFOREST; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DRY MASS; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

DIPTEROCARPACEAE; SHOREA; SHOREA PILOSA;

EID: 75249097247     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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