Articles | Volume 8, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3481-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3481-2015
Research article
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26 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 26 Aug 2015

Design and application of a mobile ground-based observatory for continuous measurements of atmospheric trace gas and criteria pollutant species

S. E. Bush, F. M. Hopkins, J. T. Randerson, C.-T. Lai, and J. R. Ehleringer

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