An inverse modeling procedure to determine particle growth and nucleation rates from measured aerosol size distributions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2927-2942

  Verheggen, B ^a,b   Mozurkewich, M ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746265181     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-2927-2006     Document Type: Article

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