Measurements of methane in the troposphere and lower stratosphere
Open Access
- 1 August 1966
- journal article
- Published by Stockholm University Press in Tellus
- Vol. 18 (2-3), 221-225
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1966.tb00230.x
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. DOI: 10.1111/j.2153-3490.1966.tb00230.xKeywords
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