Hindcast experiments of tropospheric composition during the summer 2010 fires over western Russia

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4341-4364

  Huijnen, V ^a   Flemming, J ^b   Kaiser, J W ^b   Inness, A ^b   Leitao J ^c   Heil, A ^d   Eskes, H J ^a   Schultz, M G ^d   Benedetti, A ^b   Hadji Lazaro, J ^e   Dufour, G ^f   Eremenko, M ^f  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; WILDFIRE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84861358671     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-4341-2012     Document Type: Article

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