First remote sensing observations of trifluoromethane (HFC-23) in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Harrison, Jeremy J ^a   Boone, Christopher D ^b   Brown, Alexander T ^a   Allen, Nicholas D C ^a   Toon, Geoffrey C ^c   Bernath, Peter F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ACE-FTS; ALTITUDE RANGE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; SOLAR OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; TIME-PERIODS; TRIFLUOROMETHANE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VOLUME MIXING RATIOS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BALLOON OBSERVATION; DATA SET; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HYDROFLUOROCARBON; INTERFEROMETER; MIXING RATIO; REMOTE SENSING; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; CAPE GRIM; TASMANIA;

EID: 84858422894     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016423     Document Type: Article

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