North American acetone sources determined from tall tower measurements and inverse modeling

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3379-3392

  Hu, L ^a   Millet, D B ^a   Kim, S Y ^a   Wells, K C ^a   Griffis, T J ^a   Fischer, E V ^b   Helmig, D ^c   Hueber, J ^c   Curtis, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGENIC EMISSION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEROXYACETYL NITRATE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84876155595     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-3379-2013     Document Type: Article

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