Large emissions of perfluorocarbons in East Asia deduced from continuous atmospheric measurements

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4089-4095

  Saito, Takuya ^a   Yokouchi, Yoko ^a   Stohl, Andreas ^b   Taguchi, Shoichi ^c   Mukai, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MIXING; EAST ASIA; ENHANCED MIXING; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; MIXING RATIOS; NORTH KOREA; PERFLUOROCARBONS; SOUTH KOREA; TOTAL EMISSIONS; TRANSPORT MODELS;

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA;

MIXING;

FLUOROCARBON;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; EMISSION INVENTORY; FLUOROCARBON; GREENHOUSE GAS; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; MIXING RATIO; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; JAPAN; NORTH KOREA; SOUTH KOREA; TAIWAN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ASIA; FLUOROCARBONS;

FAR EAST;

EID: 77952905832     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1001488     Document Type: Article

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