Reactive nitrogen, ozone and ozone production in the Arctic troposphere and the impact of stratosphere-troposphere exchange

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 13181-13199

  Liang, Q ^a,d,j   Rodriguez, J M ^a   Douglass, A R ^a   Crawford, J H ^b   Olson, J R ^b   Apel, E ^c   Bian, H ^a,d   Blake, D R ^e   Brune, W ^f   Chin, M ^a   Colarco, P R ^a   Da Silva, A ^a   Diskin, G S ^b   Duncan, B N ^a   Huey, L G ^g   Knapp, D J ^c   Montzka, D D ^c   Nielsen, J E ^a,h   Pawson, S ^a   Riemer, D D ^c   Weinheimer, A J ^c   Wisthaler, A ⁱ   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR MASS; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOMASS BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METHANE; NITROGEN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OZONE; REACTION KINETICS; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; SUBARCTIC REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84055217957     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-13181-2011     Document Type: Article

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