Atmospheric trends of the halon gases from polar firn air
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Atmospheric trends of the halon gases from polar firn air C. E. Reeves, W. T. Sturges, G. A. Sturrock, K. Preston, D. E. Oram, J. Schwander, R. Mulvaney, J.-M. Barnola, and J. Chappellez School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK Physics Institute, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK CNRS Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d’Heres, France Received: 10 December 2004 – Accepted: 11 January 2005 – Published: 18 February 2005 Correspondence to: C. E. Reeves ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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