210Po, an atmospheric tracer of long-range transport of volcanic plumes

Eun-Yun Nho; Marie-Françoise Le Cloarec; Bénédicte Ardouin; Michel Ramonet

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v49i4.15980

210Po, an atmospheric tracer of long-range transport of volcanic plumes

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 49 (1997): Issue 4

By: Eun-Yun Nho, Marie-Françoise Le Cloarec, Bénédicte Ardouin and Michel Ramonet

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Submitted on: Feb 19, 1996

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