Active and widespread halogen chemistry in the tropical and subtropical free troposphere

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 9281-9286

  Wang, Siyuan ^a,l   Schmidt, Johan A ^b,c   Baidar, Sunil ^a   Coburn, Sean ^a   Dix, Barbara ^a   Koenig, Theodore K ^a   Apel, Eric ^d   Bowdalo, Dene ^e   Campos, Teresa L ^d   Eloranta, Ed ^f   Evans, Mathew J ^e   Di Gangi, Joshua P ^g,m   Zondlo, Mark A ^g   Gao, Ru Shan ^h   Haggerty, Julie A ⁱ   Hall, Samuel R ^d   Hornbrook, Rebecca S ^d   Jacob, Daniel ^b   Morley, Bruce ⁱ   Pierce, Bradley ^j   Reeves, Mike ^j   Romashkin, Pavel ^j   Ter Schure, Arnout ^k   Volkamer, Rainer ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g Princeton University   (United States)

^h EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^k ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^m NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Atmospheric chemistry; Halogens; Heterogeneous chemistry; Oxidative capacity; UTLS

Indexed keywords

BROMINE OXIDE; HALOGEN; IODINE OXIDE; MERCURY; OXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLOUD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEBROMINATION; MEASUREMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84938069464     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505142112     Document Type: Article

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