Nitrogen emission and deposition budget in West and Central Africa

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Galy Lacaux, C ^a   Delon, C ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

African ecosystems; Atmospheric deposition budget; Emission budget; Nitrogen; Wet and dry deposition processes

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NITROGEN;

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; DRY DEPOSITION FLUXES; DRY DEPOSITION PROCESS; EMISSION BUDGETS; WET AND DRY;

BUDGET CONTROL;

AMMONIA; BIOMASS BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NITROGEN; PARTICULATE FLUX; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE DATA; VOLATILIZATION; WET DEPOSITION;

DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; EMISSION; NITROGEN;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84919752689     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/125002     Document Type: Article

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