Using a cloud condensation nuclei counter to study CCN properties and concentrations

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 349-359

  Aalto, Pasi ^a   Kulmala, Markku ^a  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (Finland)

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