Iodine monoxide in the north subtropical free troposphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4909-4921

  Puentedura, O ^a   Gil, M ^a   Saiz Lopez, A ^b   Hay, T ^b   Navarro Comas, M ^a   Gomez Pelaez A ^c   Cuevas, E ^c   Iglesias, J ^a   Gomez, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c Centro de Investigacíon Atmosf erica de Izaña   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; IODINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84861956060     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-4909-2012     Document Type: Article

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