Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2-773-2009
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2-773-2009
03 Dec 2009
 | 03 Dec 2009

Real-time profiling of organic trace gases in the planetary boundary layer by PTR-MS using a tethered balloon

R. Schnitzhofer, A. Wisthaler, and A. Hansel

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