The Australian methane budget: Interpreting surface and train-borne measurements using a chemistry transport model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Fraser, Annemarie ^a   Miller, Christopher Chan ^b,c   Palmer, Paul I ^a   Deutscher, Nicholas M ^b,d   Jones, Nicholas B ^b   Griffith, David W T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METEOROLOGY; MODELS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; CLEAN AIR; COAL MINING; DRY AIR; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GROUND BASED; IN-SITU; LOCAL EMISSIONS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; POLLUTED AIR MASS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SINGLE SOURCE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE CONCENTRATION; TROPICAL LATITUDES; WETLAND EMISSIONS;

METHANE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COAL MINING; DATA SET; DESERT; EMISSION INVENTORY; EOS; GRACE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METHANE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80055059278     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015964     Document Type: Article

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