Polar organic compounds in rural PM2.5 aerosols from K-puszta, Hungary, during a 2003 summer field campaign: Sources and diel variations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1805-1814

  Ion, A C ^a   Vermeylen, R ^a   Kourtchev, I ^a   Cafmeyer, J ^b   Chi, X ^b   Gelencser A ^c   Maenhaut, W ^b   Claeys, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOMASS BURNING; DIEL VARIATION; ISOPRENE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; WORLD;

EID: 24644456430     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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