Global carbon tetrachloride distributions obtained from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7449-7459

  Allen, N D C ^a   Bernath, P F ^a,b   Boone, C D ^b   Chipperfield, M P ^c   Fu, D ^b,d   Manney, G L ^d,e   Oram, D E ^f   Toon, G C ^d   Weisenstein, D K ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CFC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOURIER TRANSFORM; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MIXING RATIO; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 76149116508     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-7449-2009     Document Type: Article

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