On the existence of neutral atmospheric clusters

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 79-87

  Kulmala, Markku ^a   Lehtinen, Kari E J ^b   Laakso, Lauri ^a   Mordas, Genrik ^a   Hämeri, Kaarle ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

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