Contribution of secondary condensable organics to new particle formation: A case study in Houston, Texas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Fan, Jiwen ^a   Zhang, Renyi ^a   Collins, Don ^a   Li, Guohui ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUCLEATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIRCRAFT AEROSOL MEASUREMENTS; COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL (CMAQ); ORGANIC NUCLEATION; ULTRAFINE PARTICLES;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL FORMATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; NUCLEATION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SULFATE;

HOUSTON; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845644565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026295     Document Type: Article

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