Clumped isotope perturbation in tropospheric nitrous oxide from stratospheric photolysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3546-3552

  Schmidt, Johan A ^a,b   Johnson, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

clumped isotopes; isotopomer; nitrogen cycle; nitrous oxide; quantum chemistry; stratosphere

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GASES; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN OXIDES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CLUMPED ISOTOPES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPOMER; NITROGEN CYCLES; NITROUS OXIDE; TIME-DEPENDENT QUANTUM DYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET ABSORPTION;

PHOTOLYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROUS OXIDE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84930475558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063102     Document Type: Article

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