Spatiotemporal variations in mid-upper tropospheric methane over China from satellite observations

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 3321-3327

  Zhang, Xing Ying ^a,b   Bai, Wen Guang ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Wang, Wei He ^a  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

mid upper tropospheric methane; satellite remote sensing; spatiotemporal variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255136282     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4666-x     Document Type: Article

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