Evaluating atmospheric methane inversion model results for Pallas, northern Fsinland

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 506-525

  Tsuruta, Aki ^a   Aalto, Tuula ^a   Backman, Leif ^a   Peters, Wouter ^b   Krol, Maarten ^b   van der Laan Luijkx, Ingrid T ^b   Hatakka, Juha ^c   Heikkinen, Pauli ^a   Dlugokencky, Edward J ^d   Spahni, Renato ^e   Paramonova, Nina N ^f  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Finnish Meteorologiacal Institute Atmospheric Composition Research   (Finland)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f VOEIKOV MAIN GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

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