Seasonality of 7Be concentrations in Europe and influence of tropopause height

Miguel Angel Hernández-Ceballos; Erika Brattich; Giorgia Cinelli; Jelena Ajtić; Vladimir Djurdjevic

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v68.29534

Seasonality of 7Be concentrations in Europe and influence of tropopause height

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 68 (2016): Issue 1

By: Miguel Angel Hernández-Ceballos, Erika Brattich, Giorgia Cinelli, Jelena Ajtić and Vladimir Djurdjevic

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v68.29534 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Language: English

Page range: 29534 - 29534

Submitted on: Aug 26, 2015

Accepted on: Mar 30, 2016

Published on: Jan 1, 2016

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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