Variations of tropospheric methane over Japan during 1988-2010

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Umezawa, Taku ^a,d   Goto, Daisuke ^a,e   Aoki, Shuji ^a   Ishijima, Kentaro ^b   Patra, Prabir K ^b   Sugawara, Satoshi ^c   Morimoto, Shinji ^a   Nakazawa, Takakiyo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Miyaigi University of Education   (Japan)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aircraft observation; Asian outflow; Atmospheric chemistry transport model; Long term variation; Methane; Seasonality; Vertical profile

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIRCRAFT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METHANE; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

JAPAN;

EID: 84924397329     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v66.23837     Document Type: Article

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