Evaluation of an automatic algorithm for fitting the particle number size distributions

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 337-355

  Hussein, Tareq ^a   Dal Maso, Miikka ^a   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a   Koponen, Ismo K ^b   Paatero, Pentti ^a   Aalto, Pasi P ^a   Hämeri, Kaarle ^a,c   Kulmala, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

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