Fully automated, high-precision instrumentation for the isotopic analysis of tropospheric N2O using continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1723-1738

  Potter, Katherine E ^a   Ono, Shuhei ^a   Prinn, Ronald G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN OXIDES; PHASE INTERFACES; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR SAMPLES; CONTINUOUS-FLOW ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRIES; FULLY AUTOMATED; HIGH-PRECISION; HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPE-RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MEASUREMENTS OF; PRECISION INSTRUMENTATION; SPECTROMETRY SYSTEMS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 84879955666     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6623     Document Type: Article

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