Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4529-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4529-2013
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02 May 2013
Research article |  | 02 May 2013

ACE-FTS observations of pyrogenic trace species in boreal biomass burning plumes during BORTAS

K. A. Tereszchuk, G. González Abad, C. Clerbaux, J. Hadji-Lazaro, D. Hurtmans, P.-F. Coheur, and P. F. Bernath

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