International comparison of a hydrocarbon gas standard at the picomol per mol level

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2580-2589

  Rhoderick, George C ^a   Duewer, David L ^a   Apel, Eric ^b   Baldan, Annarita ^c   Hall, Bradley ^d   Harling, Alice ^e   Helmig, Detlev ^f   Heo, Gwi Suk ^g   Hueber, Jacques ^f   Kim, Mi Eon ^g   Kim, Yong Doo ^g   Miller, Ben ^d   Montzka, Steve ^d   Riemer, Daniel ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Van Swindin Laboratorium   (Netherlands)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION STANDARD; GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL INTERCOMPARISON; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTES; NON-METHANE HYDROCARBONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS MIXTURES; MIXTURES; STABILITY; STANDARDS;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 84900642752     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: 15206882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac403761u     Document Type: Article

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