Design and performance characteristics of a condensation particle counter UF-02proto

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 543-552

  Mordas, Genrik ^a   Kulmala, Markku ^a   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a   Aalto, Pasi P ^a   Matulevičius, Vytautas ^c   Grigoraitis, Vytautas ^d   Ulevičius, Vidmantas ^e   Grauslys, Vaclovas ^f   Ukkonen, Ari ^g   Hämeri, Kaarle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c Tikslieji Prietaisai Ltd   (Lithuania)

^d Minties Kvantas Ltd   (Lithuania)

^e CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^f Eltera Ltd   (Lithuania)

^g Dekati Ltd   (Finland)

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