Nitogen and oxygen isotope budget balance in tropospheric N_2O

摘要

The N_2O is an important greenhouse gas. In the steady state the stable isotopic composition of nitrogen and oxygen in tropospheric N_2O is balanced by isotopically light N_2O emitted from soils and oceans and isotopically heavy N_2O as return flux from the stratosphere. However, no such balance was reached in calculations given by Kim and Craig.