Southern hemispheric halon trends and global halon emissions, 1978-2011

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5551-5565

  Newland, M J ^a   Reeves, C E ^a   Oram, D E ^a   Laube, J C ^a   Sturges, W T ^a   Hogan, C ^a   Begley, P ^a   Fraser, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BROMINE; EMISSION; MIXING RATIO; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; CAPE GRIM; TASMANIA;

EID: 84879030058     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-5551-2013     Document Type: Article

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