Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10799-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10799-2015
Research article
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29 Sep 2015
Research article |  | 29 Sep 2015

The NOx dependence of bromine chemistry in the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer

K. D. Custard, C. R. Thompson, K. A. Pratt, P B. Shepson, J. Liao, L. G. Huey, J. J. Orlando, A. J. Weinheimer, E. Apel, S. R. Hall, F. Flocke, L. Mauldin, R. S. Hornbrook, D. Pöhler, S. General, J. Zielcke, W. R. Simpson, U. Platt, A. Fried, P. Weibring, B. C. Sive, K. Ullmann, C. Cantrell, D. J. Knapp, and D. D. Montzka

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