An approach to retrieve information on the carbonyl fluoride (COF 2) vertical distributions above Jungfraujoch by FTIR multi-spectrum multi-window fitting

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9027-9042

  Duchatelet, P ^a   Mahieu, E ^a   Ruhnke, R ^b   Feng, W ^c   Chipperfield, M ^c   Demoulin, P ^a   Bernath, P ^d,e   Boone, C D ^e   Walker, K A ^e,f   Servais, C ^a   Flock, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBONYL COMPOUND; FLUORIDE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MIXING RATIO; SEASONAL VARIATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZENITH ANGLE;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; JUNGFRAUJOCH; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78649789866     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-9027-2009     Document Type: Article

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