A comparison of cascade impactor data reduction methods

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-200

  O'Shaughnessy, Patrick T ^a   Raabe, Otto G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DATA REDUCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATION;

AEROSOLS;

AERODYNAMICS; CASCADE; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037305631     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786820300956     Document Type: Article

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