Cosmogenic 35S: A unique tracer to Antarctic atmospheric chemistry and the polar vortex

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Priyadarshi, Antra ^a   Dominguez, Gerardo ^a   Savarino, Joel ^b   Thiemens, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GASES; MIXING; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC OXIDATION CAPACITY; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; OXIDANT CONCENTRATIONS; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FUTURE PROSPECT; OXIDATION; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TIMESCALE; TRACER;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79960280758     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047469     Document Type: Article

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