Transport of PAN and NOy from different source regions to the Swiss high alpine site Jungfraujoch

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-115

  Pandey Deolal, Shubha ^a   Staehelin, Johannes ^a   Brunner, Dominik ^b   Cui, Junbo ^a,c   Steinbacher, Martin ^b   Zellweger, Christoph ^b   Henne, Stephan ^b   Vollmer, Martin K ^b  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long range transport; Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN); Reactive nitrogen species (NOy); Springtime maximum

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CHEMICAL FILTERS; HIGH ALTITUDE SITES; INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MIXING RATIOS; NITROGEN SPECIES; NORTH AMERICAN; PEROXYACETYL NITRATES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POLLUTANT LEVELS; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; SOURCE REGION; SPRINGTIME MAXIMUM; SWITZERLAND; WARM SEASONS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; PEROXIDES; TROPOSPHERE;

MIXING;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; PEROXYACETYLNITRATE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

AIR MASS; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MIXING RATIO; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONALITY;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EUROPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SWITZERLAND; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; BERN [SWITZERLAND]; JUNGFRAUJOCH; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84867742301     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.08.021     Document Type: Article

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