Simultaneous in situ measurements of N20 and CH4 were made with a tunable diode laser spectrometer (ALIAS II) aboard the Observations from the Middle Stratosphere (OMS) balloon platform from New Mexico, Alaska, and Brazil during 1996 and 1997. We find different compact relationships of CH4 with N20 in the tropics and extra-tropics because mixing is slow between these regions. Transport into the...

Smoothing or filtering of data is first preprocessing step for noise suppression in many applications involving data analysis. Moving average is the most popular method of smoothing the data, generalization of this led to the development of Savitzky-Golay filter. Many window smoothing methods were developed by convolving the data with different window functions for different applications; most ...

The coordination of the electronic ground states of Fe+ (6D) and FeO+ (6x+) has been investigated in the gas phase with the inorganic molecules H2, HD, D2, H20, CO, NO, N2, 02, C02, N02, and N20. Reaction rate coefficients and product distributions were measured with the Selected-Ion Flow Tube (SIFT) technique operating at 294 f 3 K and a helium buffer-gas pressure of 0.35 f 0.01 Torr. Except w...

OBJECTIVE In patients who remain in a coma after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the bilateral absence of cortical N20 responses of median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) 24 hours after admission invariably correlates with a poor neurologic outcome. Nowadays, CPR patients are treated with mild hypothermia, with simultaneously administered sedative drugs, hampering clinical neu...