Application of the N2/Ar technique to measuring soil-atmosphere N2 fluxes

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 449-459

  Yang, Wendy H ^a   Silver, Whendee L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR;

DIFFUSION BOX; DINITROGEN; DRY SAND; FLUX CHAMBERS; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPE-RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOIL ATMOSPHERE; STEADY STATE FLUXES; SURFACE FLUX; WATER VAPOR FLUX;

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EID: 84863012385     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6124     Document Type: Article

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