Articles | Volume 7, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3295-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3295-2014
Research article
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06 Oct 2014
Research article |  | 06 Oct 2014

Retrieval of tropospheric column-averaged CH4 mole fraction by solar absorption FTIR-spectrometry using N2O as a proxy

Z. Wang, N. M. Deutscher, T. Warneke, J. Notholt, B. Dils, D. W. T. Griffith, M. Schmidt, M. Ramonet, and C. Gerbig

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