Satellite observations of peroxyacetyl nitrate from the aura tropospheric emission spectrometer

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3737-3749

  Payne, V H ^a   Alvarado, M J ^b   Cady Pereira, K E ^b   Worden, J R ^a   Kulawik, S S ^c   Fischer, E V ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; AURA (SATELLITE); CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; INSTRUMENTATION; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEROXYACETYL NITRATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETRY; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA;

EID: 84905277860     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-3737-2014     Document Type: Article

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