Aircraft based four-channel thermal dissociation laser induced fluorescence instrument for simultaneous measurements of NO2, total peroxy nitrate, total alkyl nitrate, and HNO3

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 971-980

  Di Carlo, P ^a   Aruffo, E ^a   Busilacchio, M ^a   Giammaria, F ^a   Dari Salisburgo, C ^a   Biancofiore, F ^a   Visconti, G ^a   Lee, J ^b   Moller, S ^b   Reeves, C E ^c   Bauguitte, S ^d   Forster, G ^c   Jones, R L ^e   Ouyang, B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LASER; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84879936222     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-971-2013     Document Type: Article

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