Production of peroxy nitrates in boreal biomass burning plumes over Canada during the BORTAS campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3485-3497

  Busilacchio, Marcella ^a   Di Carlo, Piero ^a   Aruffo, Eleonora ^a   Biancofiore, Fabio ^a   Salisburgo, Cesare Dari ^a   Giammaria, Franco ^a   Bauguitte, Stephane ^b   Lee, James ^c   Moller, Sarah ^c   Hopkins, James ^c   Punjabi, Shalini ^c   Andrews, Stephen ^c   Lewis, Alistair C ^c   Parrington, Mark ^d,h   Palmer, Paul I ^d   Hyer, Edward ^e   Wolfe, Glenn M ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^h EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; FOREST FIRE; NITRATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CANADA;

EID: 84962573614     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-3485-2016     Document Type: Article

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