Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1437-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1437-2018
Research article
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14 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 14 Mar 2018

Greenhouse gas measurements from a UK network of tall towers: technical description and first results

Kieran M. Stanley, Aoife Grant, Simon O'Doherty, Dickon Young, Alistair J. Manning, Ann R. Stavert, T. Gerard Spain, Peter K. Salameh, Christina M. Harth, Peter G. Simmonds, William T. Sturges, David E. Oram, and Richard G. Derwent

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