Measurements of methane in the troposphere and lower stratosphere

A. E. Bainbridge; Leroy E. Heidt

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v18i2-3.9677

Measurements of methane in the troposphere and lower stratosphere

Tellus

Volume 18 (1966): Issue 2-3

By: A. E. Bainbridge and Leroy E. Heidt

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|Jan 1966

Abstract

Two profiles of air samples have been collected over Southern U.S.A. (3° N latitude) between ground level and 23 km and analysed for methane. The results show, with increasing altitude, a mixing ratio nearly constant to the tropopause and decreasing rapidly in the lower stratosphere. The results suggest that the troposphere is the major region of destruction of methane.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v18i2-3.9677 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 221 - 225

Submitted on: Oct 27, 1965

Accepted on: Feb 22, 1966

Published on: Jan 1, 1966

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© 1966 A. E. Bainbridge, Leroy E. Heidt, published by Stockholm University Press
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