Lightning NOx, a key chemistry-climate interaction: Impacts of future climate change and consequences for tropospheric oxidising capacity

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 9871-9881

  Banerjee, A ^a   Archibald, A T ^a   Maycock, A C ^a   Telford, P ^a   Abraham, N L ^a   Yang, X ^a,b   Braesicke, P ^a,c   Pyle, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIGHTNING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84907279744     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-9871-2014     Document Type: Article

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