Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-3307-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-3307-2013
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22 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 22 Mar 2013

Stratospheric BrO abundance measured by a balloon-borne submillimeterwave radiometer

R. A. Stachnik, L. Millán, R. Jarnot, R. Monroe, C. McLinden, S. Kühl, J. Puķīte, M. Shiotani, M. Suzuki, Y. Kasai, F. Goutail, J. P. Pommereau, M. Dorf, and K. Pfeilsticker

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