Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-851-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-851-2013
Research article
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22 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 22 Jan 2013

The influence of biomass burning on the global distribution of selected non-methane organic compounds

A. C. Lewis, M. J. Evans, J. R. Hopkins, S. Punjabi, K. A. Read, R. M. Purvis, S. J. Andrews, S. J. Moller, L. J. Carpenter, J. D. Lee, A. R. Rickard, P. I. Palmer, and M. Parrington

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