Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2555-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2555-2014
Research article
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13 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 13 Mar 2014

Quantifying global terrestrial methanol emissions using observations from the TES satellite sensor

K. C. Wells, D. B. Millet, K. E. Cady-Pereira, M. W. Shephard, D. K. Henze, N. Bousserez, E. C. Apel, J. de Gouw, C. Warneke, and H. B. Singh

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