Nitric acid photolysis on forest canopy surface as a source for tropospheric nitrous acid

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 440-443

  Zhou, Xianliang ^a,b   Zhang, Ning ^b   Teravest, Michaela ^c   Tang, David ^d   Hou, Jian ^b   Bertman, Steve ^e   Alaghmand, Marjan ^f   Shepson, Paul B ^f   Carroll, Mary Anne ^g   Griffith, Stephen ^h   Dusanter, Sebastien ^h   Stevens, Philip S ^h  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; FOREST CANOPY; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LEAF AREA; NITRIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; PHOTOLYSIS; RURAL ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960017760     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1164     Document Type: Article

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