Seasonal trends of the stable nitrogen isotope ratio in particulate nitrogen compounds and their gaseous precursors in Akita, Japan

Hiroto Kawashima

doi:10.1080/16000889.2019.1627846

Seasonal trends of the stable nitrogen isotope ratio in particulate nitrogen compounds and their gaseous precursors in Akita, Japan

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 71 (2019): Issue 1

By: Hiroto Kawashima

Open Access

|Jan 2019

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