Convective transport of very short lived bromocarbons to the stratosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5781-5792

  Liang, Q ^a,b   Atlas, E ^c   Blake, D ^d   Dorf, M ^e,g   Pfeilsticker, K ^e   Schauffler, S ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; BROMINE COMPOUND; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [MEXICO]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84902295943     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-5781-2014     Document Type: Article

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