Unexpected seasonality in quantity and composition of Amazon rainforest air reactivity

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nolscher A C ^a   Yanez Serrano A M ^a,b   Wolff, S ^a,b   De Araujo, A Carioca ^c   Lavric J V ^d   Kesselmeier, J ^a   Williams, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROXYL RADICAL; ISOPRENE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; REACTION KINETICS; SEASONALITY; TRACE GAS; TURBULENT MIXING;

ARTICLE; DRY SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RAIN FOREST; RAINFOREST AIR REACTIVITY; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; WET SEASON;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 84955460116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10383     Document Type: Article

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