DOAS measurements of formaldehyde and glyoxal above a south-east Asian tropical rainforest

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5949-5962

  MacDonald, S M ^a   Oetjen, H ^a,c   Mahajan, A S ^a,d   Whalley, L K ^a   Edwards, P M ^a,e   Heard, D E ^a   Jones, C E ^b,f   Plane, J M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Laboratory for Atmospheric and Climate Science   (Spain)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST CANOPY; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ISOPRENE; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RAINFOREST; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPOSPHERE;

BORNEO;

EID: 84863899216     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-5949-2012     Document Type: Article

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