Evidence for under-reported western European emissions of the potent greenhouse gas HFC-23

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Keller, Christoph A ^a   Brunner, Dominik ^a   Henne, Stephan ^a   Vollmer, Martin K ^a   O'Doherty, Simon ^b   Reimann, Stefan ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; FLUOROCARBONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIME; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; CHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE; EMISSION INVENTORIES; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IRELAND; LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT; MACE HEAD; SWITZERLAND; TRIFLUOROMETHANE;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; CONNACHT; COUNTY GALWAY; IRELAND; JUNGFRAUJOCH; MACE HEAD; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 80051534500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047976     Document Type: Article

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