Emission ratios for ammonia and formic acid and observations of peroxy acetyl nitrate (PAN) and ethylene in biomass burning smoke as seen by the tropospheric emission spectrometer (TES)

Atmosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 633-654

  Alvarado, Matthew J ^a   Cady Pereira, Karen E ^a   Xiao, Yaping ^a   Millet, Dylan B ^b   Payne, Vivienne H ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Biomass burning; Ethylene; Formic acid; PAN; Satellite; TES

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AMMONIA; BIOMASS; ETHYLENE; MIXING; NASA; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC RESEARCH; BIOMASS BURNING SMOKES; BIOMASS-BURNING; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; EMISSION RATIO; GROUND BASED; MIXING RATIOS; PAN; SMOKE PLUME; SURFACE SENSITIVITY; TES; TRACE-GASES; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETERS;

FORMIC ACID;

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; AURA (SATELLITE); BIOMASS BURNING; CLOUD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; ETHYLENE; FORMIC ACID; MIXING RATIO; OPTICAL DEPTH; PEROXYACETYL NITRATE; SMOKE; SPECTROMETRY; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADA;

EID: 84255172246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos2040633     Document Type: Article

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