The magnitude of the snow-sourced reactive nitrogen flux to the boundary layer in the Uintah Basin, Utah, USA

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 13837-13851

  Zatko, Maria ^a   Erbland, Joseph ^b,c   Savarino, Joel ^b,c   Geng, Lei ^a,b,c   Easley, Lauren ^a,i   Schauer, Andrew ^a   Bates, Timothy ^a   Quinn, Patricia K ^d   Light, Bonnie ^a   Morison, David ^a,j   Osthoff, Hans D ^e   Lyman, Seth ^f   Neff, William ^g   Yuan, Bin ^g,h   Alexander, Becky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ DSG Solutions   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SNOW;

UINTAH BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84995753819     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-13837-2016     Document Type: Article

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