Nocturnal loss and daytime source of nitrous acid through reactive uptake and displacement

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 55-60

  Vandenboer, Trevor C ^a,d   Young, Cora J ^b,c,d   Talukdar, Ranajit K ^b,c   Markovic, Milos Z ^a,e   Brown, Steven S ^c   Roberts, James M ^c   Murphy, Jennifer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPLACEMENT; DUST; NITRIC ACID; NITRITE; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADICAL;

EID: 84927563810     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2298     Document Type: Article

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