A pervasive role for biomass burning in tropical high ozone/low water structures

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Anderson, Daniel C ^a   Nicely, Julie M ^a   Salawitch, Ross J ^a,b   Canty, Timothy P ^a   Dickerson, Russell R ^a   Hanisco, Thomas F ^c   Wolfe, Glenn M ^c,d   Apel, Eric C ^e   Atlas, Elliot ^f   Bannan, Thomas ^g   Bauguitte, Stephane ^h   Blake, Nicola J ⁱ   Bresch, James F ^e   Campos, Teresa L ^e   Carpenter, Lucy J ^j   Cohen, Mark D ^k   Evans, Mathew ^j   Fernandez, Rafael P ^l,m   Kahn, Brian H ⁿ   Kinnison, Douglas E ^e   Hall, Samuel R ^e   Harris, Neil R P ^o   Hornbrook, Rebecca S ^e   Lamarque, Jean Francois ^e   Le Breton, Michael ^g   Lee, James D ^j   Percival, Carl ^g   Pfister, Leonhard ^p   Pierce, R Bradley ^q   Riemer, Daniel D ^f   Saiz Lopez, Alfonso ^l   Stunder, Barbara J B ^k   Thompson, Anne M ^c   Ullmann, Kirk ^e   Vaughan, Adam ^j   Weinheimer, Andrew J ^e   more..

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^k NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^l INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^m UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

ⁿ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^p NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^q NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; WATER;

AIRCRAFT; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; OZONE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SAMPLING; STRATOSPHERE; TRACER; TROPOSPHERE; WATER BUDGET;

AFRICA; AIR SAMPLING; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; FIRE; LATITUDE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

AFRICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84955124666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10267     Document Type: Article

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