El Niño, the 2006 Indonesian peat fires, and the distribution of atmospheric methane

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4938-4943

  Worden, John ^a   Jiang, Zhe ^a,b   Jones, Dylan B A ^b   Alvarado, Matthew ^c   Bowman, Kevin ^a   Frankenberg, Christian ^a   Kort, Eric A ^a,d   Kulawik, Susan S ^a   Lee, Meemong ^a   Liu, Junjie ^a   Payne, Vivienne ^a   Wecht, Kevin ^e   Worden, Helen ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; fires; methane; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; ENSO; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS OF POLLUTION IN THE TROPOSPHERES; PROFILE MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; METHANE; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FIRES;

BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EOS; METHANE; MOPITT; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING;

INDONESIA;

EID: 84884171678     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50937     Document Type: Article

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