Stratospheric ozone depletion due to nitrous oxide: Influences of other gases

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1593, 2012, Pages 1256-1264

  Portmann, R W ^a   Daniel, J S ^a   Ravishankara, A R ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Halocarbon; Methane; Nitrous oxide; Ozone depletion potential; Stratospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION INVENTORY; HALOCARBON; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84859054651     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0377     Document Type: Article

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