ACTRIS non-methane hydrocarbon intercomparison experiment in Europe to support WMO GAW and EMEP observation networks

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2715-2736

  Hoerger, C C ^a   Claude, A ^b   Plass Duelmer, C ^b   Reimann, S ^a   Eckart, E ^c   Steinbrecher, R ^c   Aalto, J ^d   Arduini, J ^e   Bonnaire, N ^f   Cape, J N ^g   Colomb, A ^h   Connolly, R ⁱ   Diskova, J ^j   Dumitrean, P ^k   Ehlers, C ^l   Gros, V ^f   Hakola, H ^m   Hill, M ^a   Hopkins, J R ⁿ   Jager J ^l   Junek, R ^o   Kajos, M K ^d   Klemp, D ^l   Leuchner, M ^p   Lewis, A C ⁿ   Locoge, N ^q   Maione, M ^e   Martin, D ^r,s   Michl, K ^b   Nemitz, E ^g   O'Doherty, S ^p   Perez Ballesta P ⁱ   Ruuskanen, T M ^d   Sauvage, S ^q   Schmidbauer, N ^t   Spain, T G ^s   Straube, E ^o   Vana, M ^j,u   Vollmer, M K ^a   Wegener, R ^l   Wenger, A ^a,r   more..

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^f LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^g CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^h Universite Blaise Pascal   (France)

ⁱ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^j CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^k RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

^l FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^m FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^o UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^p TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^q ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^s NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^t NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^u INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AMBIENT AIR; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CALIBRATION; CLOUD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LABORATORY METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITROGEN; NONMETHANE HYDROCARBON; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRACE GAS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84937054214     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-2715-2015     Document Type: Article

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