Articles | Volume 13, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12451-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12451-2013
Research article
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19 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2013

Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios

S. J. O'Shea, G. Allen, M. W. Gallagher, S. J.-B. Bauguitte, S. M. Illingworth, M. Le Breton, J. B. A. Muller, C. J. Percival, A. T. Archibald, D. E. Oram, M. Parrington, P. I. Palmer, and A. C. Lewis

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